America Quote by Jimmy Page

We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.

— Ezra Furman

We really wanted to be rock 'n' roll, so we became rock 'n' roll, and really good at it, but you pick up loads…

— Shaun Ryder

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you…

— Kim Gordon

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to…

— Steve Winwood

I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and…

— Gavin Rossdale

By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark…

— Michael Stipe

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

— Slash

I started out in the folk music world only because of the way my songs were written and performed, with just an acoustic guitar,…

— John Prine

When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted…

— Steven Sater

I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to sit by…

— Ronnie Wood

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

— Kurt Cobain

Hearing a lot of early rock n' roll records from a very young age was a huge influence.

— Angus Young