Posts Categorized: Rock n Roll Quotes

Johnny Winter

“Everybody was tellin’ me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary a little bit. I still love some rock n roll too.” “I just like the blues better than rock n roll.” “…it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.”… Read more »

Janis Joplin

“You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.” Janis Joplin

Aretha Franklin

“I always felt rock and roll was very,very wholesome music” “If a song’s about something I’ve experienced or that could’ve happened to me it’s good. But if it’s alien to me, I couldn’t lend anything to it. Because that’s what soul is all about.” Aretha Franklin

Tom Petty

“It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.” Tom Petty

Neil Young

“Back then people closed their eyes and listened to the music. Today there is a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it’s all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.”   “There’s an edge to real rock n roll. It’s all that… Read more »

Jimmy Page – Led Zeppelin

  “My vocation is more in composition than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.” – Jimmy Page

Elvis Presley said…

“Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.” “Rock and roll music, if you like it. you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.” “I think I have something tonight that’s not quite… Read more »