I worked as a roadie in the rock and roll business which was great fun. Very little money, very little food and the whole thing about the roadie's lifestyle is great because all the groupies have to go through the roadies to get to the rock stars. It's not necessarily true.
Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.
I sold my soul to rock and roll.
Johnny [Depp] got this rock 'n' roll old soul to him. If I say a song, he goes, 'Oh yeah. I know that song. ' A song he shouldn't know, a song that's not his generation at all. So he might as well have been there.
I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.
I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.
Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.
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.
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.
I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.
Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.
I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.
Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.
On the four aces doom'd to roll.
Rock has always been the devil's music. . . I believe that rock & roll is dangerous. . . I feel that we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves.
I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.
Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.