Ashley Quote by Iain Matthews

When I received the invitation to "check out" Fairport I knew absolutely nothing about them, all I knew was that they were beginning to…

— Iain Matthews

Wandering the book fair at AWP is a great way to get acquainted with a wide sampling of the diverse journals that are out…

— Eileen Pollack

I grew up with British rock.

— Bryan Adams

Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always admired the…

— Bronagh Gallagher

Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

— Jimmy Carl Black

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to…

— Anne Waldman

I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.

— Jerry Hall

“the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, like Rolling Stone before it, made Jann Wenner the one-man Pravda of a deeply conservative rock-and-roll culture.”

— Joe Hagan

“superb book Mercia and the Making of England (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2000).”

— Bernard Cornwell

We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.

— Slash

Lemmy is, I think, for anybody in the world of rock n' roll - you don't have to be a bass player - he…

— Robert Trujillo

I'm at a point now where I crave healthy musical environments, where there is a genuine exchange of ideas without repressed envy or resentment,…

— Mike Patton