I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've always acted kind of like a man.
If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.
The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.
A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film. " And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies.
I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.
So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.
Early on, before rock 'n' roll, I listened to big band music - anything that came over the radio - and music played by bands in hotels that our parents could dance to. We had a big radio that looked like a jukebox, with a record player on the top. The radiorecord player played 78rpm records. When we moved to that house, there was a record on there, with a red label. It was Bill Monroe, or maybe it was the Stanley Brothers. I'd never heard anything like that before. Ever. And it moved me away from all the conventional music that I was hearing.
I think as a music listener you have your rock and roll dreams. I personally wouldn't want to apply that necessarily, mainly because I love music too much to mess it up.
There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.
GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash loved Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, Axl was into Genesis and Elton John, and Duff was a punk rocker. We all blended that stuff together.
Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.
[Jazz musicians ] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.
See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.
It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief.
I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Consummate talent and relentless passion - The Truth ain't pretty. . . but it rocks like crazy!
The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
