Steve Harris Quotes

Steve Harris

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 12, 1956

I tend not to look too much back; I tend to look forward. So, I suppose, I know, I've had probably most of my life, and there's less going forwards than there is going back, but I prefer to look in the future.

Steve Harris

I mean, it took me a long while to realize that I wasn't gonna play football on a regular basis anymore. I still play once in a while, but that took me a long while to adjust.

Steve Harris

You know, we never really know what we're going to write next. Which is part of the excitement when we go in and do a new album. No battle plan, we just go in and do it and what comes out, comes out.

Steve Harris

Once you start out, you are kind of finding out who you are, and then by the time you get to the second album or you've been touring a lot, doing live shows or whatever, the sound starts to shift slightly to something that is more the true essence of what the band really is.

Steve Harris

Obviously, Iron Maiden is on a way bigger scale to British Lion, but as a musician playing live, it's just the adrenaline rush of playing in front of an audience that gives you that rush.

Steve Harris

Whenever we play new material, eventually some of the songs become classics themselves. They can't become that unless you play them. Any new song is not going to go down as well as some of the old stuff, because obviously the old stuff the fans know inside out.

Steve Harris

I still do get a little bit nervous at the beginning of Maiden tours but that's mainly because of the new material.

Steve Harris

I may not expect every single show to sell out and I never take everything for granted, but you still know you're going to get a certain amount of people.

Steve Harris

As you get older it gets doubly hard to keep yourself fit and in shape.

Steve Harris

I think everyone knows that I'm always the one that's the busiest in Maiden. When we're not touring or recording, I'm still doing loads of Maiden stuff - video editing and god knows what else - so I get a lot less downtime than the others.

Steve Harris

If you see a credit with just my name on it, that means I write absolutely everything: rhythm guitar parts, guitar melodies, vocal melodies... absolutely everything, really.

Steve Harris

The only thing I don't write is the guitar solos, but even then I might suggest one or two things.

Steve Harris

The thing that annoys me is that I hate it when people charge bands to play with them. I hate that.

Steve Harris

I feel like I've had a fantastic life and career with music, and I've worked very hard, but maybe I've had a bit of luck along the way.

Steve Harris

Anybody who's in a position Maiden is, or whatever, or any band that can potentially take another band on tour, I think you can help other people, and it doesn't take much effort to do that.

Steve Harris