When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
Rock and roll is here to stay.
The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.
Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the Pornographers would do it. If it was kind of moody and more lyrical, then maybe it would be a Destroyer song. Anything that's really lyrically driven I would keep for Destroyer.
Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. . . it's just something I have to do.
Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when I started to listen to music on my own it was around the time of the birth of rock and roll. Shortly thereafter I started to get into more blues and more traditional rootsy American music.
I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.
There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.
I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock and Roll performance, the singer talks to the public whereas in Opera the singer only talks to a character, inside a story. The public sees this as a picture, I want to transport this picture into the room where the public is.
I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on.
Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.
Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to. . . juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear. . . Mother Goose rhymes.
The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.
Out stretched hands and one night stands, still I can't find love.
Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.
I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.