Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.
I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.
People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.
Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.
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.
These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.
Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.
The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.
Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.
It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.
Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.
My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.
What are you gonna fill your life up with when you don't have that ultimate satisfaction or peace in your life? You try to fill it up with wealth, pleasure, honor, power, sex, drugs and Rock and Roll to try to feel good.
Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.