The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends with the band. Theyre not really journalists; theyre people who want to be involved in rock and roll.
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll. '
I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.
I didn't come here to run for President. I really just came here to play rock and roll.
Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.
Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.
My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.
It's important to realize that everybody who went into country music, and most everybody who went into rock and roll in the '50s, they had no more goal than a hit on the jukebox. Johnny Cash from the very beginning had a goal that he wanted to make music that lifted people's spirits.
If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
Violence existed before our music was even suggested.
People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.
My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower.
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.
I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.
Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.
Everyone should be encouraged. . . in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.
Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.
Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.