Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By.
Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.
You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.
It's true that bluegrass is a virtuosic form and asks that of its performer. Old-time music is older rawer and purer. It's less stylized. We don't solo. Well sometimes we do, but it's different it has more to do with rock-and-roll than bluegrass does.
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.
Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.
Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
I know life sometimes can get tough! And I know life sometimes can be a drag! But people, we have been given a gift, we have been given a road And that road's name is Rock and Roll!
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.
I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.
As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.
Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.
If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.
To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.
Spread your ear pollution far and wide.
I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.