Adrian Smith Quotations

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.

The real issue is does Chicago have the number of buyers that are willing to invest in a building like this.

From our vantage point, he definitely looked in, but the referee said he didn't make it in.

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

I think this immediately positions them to be in one of the top places for mobile media. The combined entity of the back-end platform and the premium content business is a powerful play. There's a powerful company that's being created here.

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

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.

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

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.

I've never been much for theory and scales.

The room is the most important thing about recording.

The report card helps give us a focus, and it frames the dialogue for moving forward.

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.

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.

In New York, $1,000-a-square-foot is not a lot of money. In New York you have three times as many people vying for a place like that. I just don't know if you have enough buyers here.