The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.
You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.
I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and. . . those are my bands.
What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution. . . the tone is everything
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.
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.
I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll
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.
Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.
I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.
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!
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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.
When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.
The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.
I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.