Adrian Smith Quotes & Sayings

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called. — Adrian Smith

I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour. — Adrian Smith

The room is the most important thing about recording. — Adrian Smith

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool. — Adrian Smith

Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process. — Adrian Smith

I've never been much for theory and scales. — Adrian Smith

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult. — Adrian Smith

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique. — Adrian Smith

The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That's a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden has integrity. I think people appreciate that. — Adrian Smith

When you're used to seeing someone being coldly efficient on court and suddenly they go on stage and into your world - it's fascinating. — Adrian Smith