Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.
Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.
I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.
It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.
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.
Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand.
Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.
Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.
I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.
The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ. The two are melded together in ways both unpredictable and unsure.
My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.
I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music.
Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium.
Enjoy music. Not the kind that rocks and rolls, but the music of the masters, the music that has lived through the centuries, the music that has lifted people. If you do not have a taste for it, listen to it thoughtfully. If you do not like it the first time, listen to it again and keep listening.
Hail, hail rock and roll Deliver me from the days of old.
I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.