Basements Quote by Klaus Nomi

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

— Salman Rushdie

My mom was always playing Elvis around the house or ZZ Top, so there was always rock-n-roll and country being played.

— Hank Williams III

It's my real name. My mother's name is Rose Rock. It was the worst name as a kid to have. They called me Piece…

— Chris Rock

A few of the artists knew my name, because I have an unusual name, from Rolling Stone.

— Jancee Dunn

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

— Slash

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class…

— Jesse Stone

I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down…

— Domhnall Gleeson

My mom bought me a guitar when I was 12 and I used to pretend that I was a rock star in my own…

— Alex Roe

I'm so old, I can remember before rock 'n' roll come along.

— J. J. Cale

My rap name as a kid was Big Tasty.

— Adam F. Goldberg

I had a band in college called 'Nick Fear, The Most Terrifying Name in Rock and Roll.' Every time we played a concert at…

— Nick Searcy

My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures…

— Loretta Lynn