Greg Prato for ultimate-guitar.com spoke with iconic guitarist, George Lynch, about how important image is, in the music industry, especially by today’s standards.
Ultimate-guitar.com: How important are looks for modern rock musicians?
George Lynch: “Well, sometimes not having an image is an image. It’s hard to define ‘image,’ I guess. That’s a moving target.
But I see what you’re saying, that looks… Obviously, in our day, androgynous looking with makeup, looks matter with anything in life. So, it affects how people accept you and how they treat you, and how well you succeed.”
So, in that sense, it’s important, I guess. Maybe unfortunately. And since I come from the ’80s era, that’s always going to be a part of my thinking, I guess, a little bit.
But I’d like to think I’ve gotten way past that, to the point where I’m going to be 70 in a couple of weeks, not trying to be the fu-king latest sex symbol or anything. But your values change as you get older.
We all want to look as best we can, and we do that. But having an image is something that’s I think either kind of innate for a person, at least you’re kind of born with that sense of style. I don’t think it’s anything really acquirable.”