You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.
Joe PerryI know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.
Joe PerryI've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.
Joe Perry