Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
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.
A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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.
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
So lots of respect for all you boys and girls out there who tab out songs like all the time. You bring rock and roll music closer to the people. Gratefully yours
Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.
Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there.
I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.
Argentina is a very interesting culture because unlike Europe and the US, they did not abandon rock and roll music, they did not turn their backs on it. It's an important part of their culture. So guitar music is an important part of their culture. So me being into rock music, I get respect working there, which wasn't happening in Europe or in the US.
My dad supports me. He said, "I wished when I was at your age I started doing rock and roll music. Then I wouldn't have to be a fashion designer." And I just laugh and keep it moving and appreciate his support.
[Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-'60s with the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.
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.
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