In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.
Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.
I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock.
I didn't think you could just become a rock and roll singer.
I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.
It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.
When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.
Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want.
What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do.
I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.
It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.
With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.
The electric guitar and its players hold a place of privilege in the annals of rock music. It is the engine, the weapon, the ax of rock.
I think that episode in the third season was great. I'm really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he's a rock star.
I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.
Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.
The movie 'Rock 'n' Roll High School' was a sacred text in my household.
I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.
It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.
A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
I grew up when 'Schoolhouse Rock' taught millions of American kids how a bill becomes a law.
I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.
There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.
My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.
As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.
If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.
And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.
