Rick Savage Quotes

"We can`t spell deadline, never mind meet one."

"We`re a pretty level-headed group. Most people think that it is wild parties and girls, girls, girls every night. We only wish." 1984

"People have accused us of not being very spontaneous on stage. They say, `You don`t jam enough.` They want us to play like Cream did 20 years ago. Those days are gone. We produce our music to be succinct and powerful. We don`t want to lose our power by playing every song for half an hour."

“Being in a band is all about compromise. When everybody can compromise and still feel they’re going in the right direction, then you have a happy band.”

“We’re doing what we all want to do. Basically it’s just down to the fact that we’re all posers. We all want to go out on stage, pose, wear dinky white boots, tight trousers and have all the girls looking at our bollocks. That’s us. We like showing off, we’re arrogant bastards, it’s just like...over the top.”

“Our fans are the best in the world. We know if we ask them to stand and cheer,they will. If we ask them to clap along, they will. I guess I could call it a love affair...we love our fans and they love us”.

"I started out in a band called Atomic Mass. We fired our vocalist one day and hired Joe in his place. That`s when things started to happen. We got Steve and Rick to join up and Def Leppard was born."

"I was having a rare weekend back in Sheffield at my local pub and somebody asked me what we were going to call the new album. I said I wasn`t sure yet. Somebody turned around and said, "Why don`t you call it Halley`s Comet? It comes around about as often.` In fact, Halley`s Comet has already been out and we are still recording." December 1986

There`s so much that has been before the human race, and just contemplating that and then the earliest forms of communication, hand claps, body slaps and then ultimately the drum, which was really the first way that man could imitate the first sound they heard: their mothers heartbeat.

And really, it`s my home life that my own personal foundation is based on and not necessarily the life within the band.

I really don`t feel any strong allegiance to any country.

With some of my previous relationships, they never really felt right even from the beginning but I persevered with them.

You know, even though you have a limb severed, the signals keep running down the nerves so I still get an itch on my elbow or whatever.

I`m sure it`s the same with yourself that when your relationship is good, it changes the way you view the rest of the world.

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.

Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

Just the same way I`d say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.