When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or… — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical… — John Cale Copy Share Image
I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings,… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
I like pop, rock n' roll, big band, Broadway - I like all those elements. — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
It just seemed like all the records I have made since Creedence Clearwater Revival have all been sort of pushed off center.… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language… — Gruff Rhys Copy Share Image
Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition? — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll. — Carmen Electra Copy Share Image
Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Scary rock n' roll bands had all the devilish imagery. But at the same time, it's not because they were devil worshippers,… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
I never, ever saw myself as glam because I didn't wear makeup... my image is a plain leather jumpsuit, which is not… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65. — Adam Clayton Copy Share Image
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