Richie Sambora quotes

Richie Sambora is an American musician, songwriter, and guitarist, famous as the longtime lead guitarist of Bon Jovi. His powerful guitar work and distinctive style helped define the band's iconic sound. He has also enjoyed a successful solo career and is respected for his contributions to rock music. Here are 29 of his quotes:

For me, success is being able to give back to your friends, your family, your community, those in need and the world entire.

Richie Sambora

Don't look over your shoulder and don't use or abuse others to get ahead. Keep your eyes focused on your goals and keep working for what you believe in and what you want to accomplish.

Richie Sambora

Seize every opportunity you have to learn. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and seize life - don't let the moments slip through your fingers like a fistful of sand. Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.

Richie Sambora

Somehow, you need to cling to your optimism. Always look for the silver lining. Always look for the best in people. Try to see things through the eyes of a child. See the wonder in the simplest things. Never stop dreaming. Believe anything is possible.

Richie Sambora

Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.

Richie Sambora

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

Richie Sambora

There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.

Richie Sambora

There is absolutely no substitute for hard work.

Richie Sambora

Let me assure you, nothing in this life feels better than having the confidence that you can take care of yourself and your family and know that you can continue to grow and excel in your profession and as a person.

Richie Sambora

You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.

Richie Sambora

As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.

Richie Sambora

I just want to thank everyone for their support. Sometimes friends need the help of their friends to get by.

Richie Sambora

Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.

Richie Sambora

Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing.

Richie Sambora

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

Richie Sambora

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

Richie Sambora

I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.

Richie Sambora

You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I'm still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.

Richie Sambora

Stand on the stage in front of 15 people or 15,000. Have them look up to you and tell you how wonderful you are, and if you don't think that's a great feeling, okay, then you're unlike me.

Richie Sambora

I'm on a search for my future ex-wife.

Richie Sambora

Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.

Richie Sambora

I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

Richie Sambora