A biography for Peter Framptonhasn’t been written yet.
“As long as I can have enough to make the record and pay the mortgage, those were always the two things that were most important to me.”
“I've never been in this business to make money. I've always been in it to make good music.”
“Your own material is your identity, and I think that's what you need to stick to.”
“I acted in 'Almost Famous.' My album 'Fingerprints' won a Grammy Award in 2007. Even more prestigious, as far as my kids were concerned, I appeared in episodes of 'The Simpsons' and 'Family Guy.'”
“I love working with film, whether it's the technical side, the acting side, or the musical side.”
“If there's ever a live record that deserved to be mixed in surround sound, it's 'Frampton Comes Alive.'”
“When I go to do a show, it's my time; it's all about me. You've come to see me. You haven't come to see me if you're in an armchair watching a video. It's very distracting.”
“I had always been a jazz fan - Django Reinhardt, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, the early George Benson. And I come from the Hank Marvin melodic upbringing. So blues, I loved, but I also liked jazz. Therefore, my style was more lyrical.”
“An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.”
“Somewhere along the way, things got confused, and the pop-star side of my career got in the way of my musician side.”
“I've always loved to play live.”
“Hey, I've done a lot of other things, but I'm also very aware that when I kick the bucket, the first paragraph will be, 'The man responsible for 'Frampton Comes Alive!' just dropped dead. Frampton Drops Dead! after coming alive all these years.'”
“The number of times that anything is overdubbed on 'Frampton Comes Alive!'... the rule was, if it didn't make it to the tape, then we can redo it because it needs to be done. If it made it to the tape, and it sounds good, we leave it. So nothing was overdubbed on that album at all that wasn't absolutely necessary.”
“Some might say I didn't pay enough of my dues, and I think I've paid my dues.”
“People are buying my life when they're buying those records. I hate to sound bigheaded or something, but that's the reality of it. Suddenly, everything you've been doing means something.”
“Writing for dance was a wonderfully freeing experience.”
“I often explain it to people that if you listen to a Who record and then go see the Who live, it's like two different bands. That's how Humble Pie worked. We were definitely a lot more ferocious live because of the energy that the entire population of us had.”
“'Penny for Your Thoughts' was something I noodled on for a while.”
“I love everything to do with movies.”
“The perception that I was just a pop star was pushed upon me by the public, and it's very hard to change the public's perception even though I never really pushed aside the musician aspect of my career. After I released 'Fingerprints,' my peers reassured me that I was on a level that I always hoped I would be on.”