“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.” Ray Charles
Posts Categorized: Rock n Roll Quotes
Billy Joel
“If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.” Billy Joel
Les Paul
“When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn’t go to the 6th string so I took off the big E and played with just 5 strings. I was only 6 or 7.” Les Paul
Woody Guthrie
“If you play more than two chords, you’re showing off” Woody Guthrie
Jimmy Page
“I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.” Jimmy Page
Elton John
“Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.” Elton John
Link Wray – Guitar Hero
“God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.” Link Wray
Pete Townshend of The Who
“He is the king. If it hadn’t been for Link Wray and ‘Rumble’, I would have never picked up a guitar.” Pete Townshend
B.B. King
“The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well, and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CD’s, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.” B.B. King
Mick Jagger
“I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty five.” Mick Jagger