Best quotes by Izzy Stradlin

Izzy Stradlin

American guitarist, singer and songwriter

Jeffrey Dean Isbell (born April 8, 1962), best known as Izzy Stradlin, is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was a co-founder and rhythm guitarist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, which he left at the height of their fame in 1991, and with whom he recorded four studio albums.

Following his departure from Guns N' Roses, Stradlin fronted his own rock band Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds, before continuing to record as a solo artist. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Guns N' Roses in 2012.

All quotes by Izzy Stradlin:

We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much.

The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.

Music gave me something to do in my life.

I hate to take showers! Guitarists don't like showers 'cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing more fluid.

There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door, going sixty-five miles an hour.

Some of the best stuff can be written out of dire times