By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
You really have to try and find a way to communicate [in the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp], to respect each other's opinions and ideas, to be able to fight for something you feel is better than somebody else's idea.
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.
You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.
I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.
Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you.
The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in. . . The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension. . . subconsciously I was crying for help.
No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.
Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.
On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins.
I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.
I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.
I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as was I. . . these were the rock and roll guys who really sparked our interest in the guitar, and later we delved into other things and went different directions. . . during my time with Eric Clapton, we talked about what we'd listened to early on, and he was a huge fan of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.
Out stretched hands and one night stands, still I can't find love.
Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.
Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.