In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.
People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.
Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me. " Now it says, "Look at me. "
Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.
If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is all my brain and body need. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is very good indeed.
Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.
I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.
I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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.
I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.
The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it. . . you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution. . . the tone is everything
If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.
Rock and roll was a good way to, to first recognize the, the confluence of white artists with it but also to kind of pretty it up a little bit, clean it up a little bit, make it more acceptable to, to people.
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.
Peace Love Rock and Roll!!!
Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.