{"id":36286,"date":"2025-10-24T05:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/jon-bon-jovi-says-he-was-ready-to-quit-performing-if-his-voice-didnt-recover-after-surgery-i-have-other-things-in-my-life\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T05:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:11:36","slug":"jon-bon-jovi-says-he-was-ready-to-quit-performing-if-his-voice-didnt-recover-after-surgery-i-have-other-things-in-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/jon-bon-jovi-says-he-was-ready-to-quit-performing-if-his-voice-didnt-recover-after-surgery-i-have-other-things-in-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Bon Jovi says he was ready to quit performing if his voice didn&#8217;t recover after surgery: &#8216;I have other things in my life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68fafe600be9845f2dc504cd?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Jon Bon Jovi.\"\/><figcaption>Jon Bon Jovi.<\/p>\n<p>Emma McIntyre\/Getty Images for The Recording Academy<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Jon Bon Jovi, 63, said he would&#039;ve quit performing if he couldn&#039;t recover his voice post-surgery.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;I have other things in my life. It&#039;s what I do. It&#039;s not who I am,&quot; he said.<\/li>\n<li>The rock star had major surgery in 2022 to repair his damaged vocal cords.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jon Bon Jovi, 63, says he would&#039;ve stopped performing if he hadn&#039;t recovered from his vocal injury.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#039;t do it for the applause. I&#039;m not that applause junkie. I do it for the joy and I do it for the art,&quot; Bon Jovi told Today in an interview on Thursday. &quot;The rest of it is great because I&#039;m good at it. But if you couldn&#039;t do it from a place of joy, what&#039;s the motivation?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>As much as he is passionate about music, it isn&#039;t his whole identity, he said: &quot;I have other things in my life. It&#039;s what I do. It&#039;s not who I am.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rock star underwent a major surgery in 2022 to repair his damaged vocal cords.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;One of my cords was atrophied, and the strong one was pushing the weak one around, and this one was dying,&quot; Bon Jovi said.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure involved inserting an implant to help rebuild his weakened vocal chords, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The road has been long. It&#039;s been tough. But I persevered,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>As part of his recovery, the singer said he&#039;s been rehearsing every day in his garage.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#039;s like training for a marathon,&quot; Bon Jovi said. &quot;Anyone can go for a run. Being able to go the distance is a whole different set of commitment. You have to physically, mentally, and spiritually be ready to do that again.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Now, he can &quot;confidently say&quot; he&#039;s able to go out and perform &quot;my two and a half hours night after night after night.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But I wouldn&#039;t do it unless it was that,&quot; Bon Jovi added.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Bon Jovi and his band announced that they would be going on tour in 2026, featuring seven dates across New York City and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The rocker first spoke about possibly retiring from touring in an interview with The Times in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is the first time I&#039;m saying this,&quot; Bon Jovi said. &quot;If the singing is not great, if I can&#039;t be the guy I once was \u2026 then I&#039;m done.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And I&#039;m good with that,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2024, Bon Jovi told Kerrang, a British music web magazine, that he didn&#039;t want to ruin the band&#039;s legacy with a subpar performance.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I didn&#039;t want to go out there and perform half-assed. It&#039;s just not worth doing at this point,&quot; he said. &quot;If I couldn&#039;t be that guy and perform like that anymore, I wasn&#039;t going to do it at all.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Other notable singers who have recovered from vocal cord injury include Adele and John Mayer.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Bon Jovi did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular hours.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Bon Jovi. Emma McIntyre\/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Jon Bon Jovi, 63, said he would&#039;ve quit performing if he couldn&#039;t recover his voice post-surgery. &quot;I have other things in my life. It&#039;s what I do. It&#039;s not who I am,&quot; he said. 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