In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me. ' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you. '
Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them.
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are.
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
We get paid in flesh. Our audiences are sluts and whores, each and every one.
I'm not really this rock'n'roll chick.
Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.
I'm no less rock 'n' roll than anyone else, I'm pretty normal.
I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.
We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.
I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!
I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do.
God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.
Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. . . . He was a considerable talent.
I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.
I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions.
Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.
When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.
