Rock and roll is music," said Vanya. "Prokofiev is music, Stravinski is music, Tchaikovski and Borodin and Rimski-Korsakov and even Rachmaninov, THEY are music. Rock and roll is smart boys with no respect, YOU are rock and roll.
Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented.
Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.
I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.
Just drive, rock star. Drive fast. Very fast. Because I’ve got a shopping list ten miles long of the things you’re going to be doing to me.
I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.
There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.
There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
I call it treason against rock 'n' roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics. ... When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as lou...
I hate Keanu Reeves. I think he's a punk.
I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.
When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.
When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.
Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.
I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.
Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.
On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins.
