American Quote by Billy Squier Download Open image “British rock & roll became the gospel for American kids like me.” — Billy Squier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare American British Christianity Gospel Like Rock
I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll. — Hozier Copy Share
When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock n' roll to me when I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had. — John Legend Copy Share Image
I was influenced by gospel and Christian music from a very young age. — Gabby Barrett Copy Share Image
Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I always loved country gospel from back when I was a teenager in high school and started listening to bluegrass quite a lot. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when I started… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
So everybody is trying to play like Eddie Van Halen. I think it's rubbish. I think Eddie's great, but everyone's trying to do what… — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
I think that 'Tell the Truth' is one of the best rock records ever made by me or anyone - I really do. — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
For me, music is this incredibly cerebral trip. You turn on the radio or put on a record, and it's your song, it's what… — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
I mean, I would always like to play bigger places and play for more people. — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
You guard your hopes and pocket your dreams, you'd trade it all to avoid an unpleasant scene. — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
Don't Say No' was the first album I'd done that I felt completely comfortable with. — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
Studio work is very methodical, while live concerts must be very spontaneous. — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something. — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
I try to remember our relative insignificance on this planet and that these seemingly important things do not mean quite as much as we… — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
Life isn't that complicated on paper. It's made more complex by the day and age we live. — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
