I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.
It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.
But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
XERB Disc Jockey: Rock 'n' Roll will stand man. Who's this on the Wolfman telephone?
Marty McFly: [sees that he has destroyed the huge speaker] Whoa! Rock 'n' Roll.
I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.
There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
Zorg: A case with four stones in it! Not one or two or three but four! Four stones! What the hell am I supposed to do with an empty case? Mangalore Aknot: We are warriors, not merchants. Zorg: But you can still count. Look it's easy. Look at my finge...
As mills require two stones, so friendship requires two heads.
Who throws stones at night, kills his own brother.
He that has a head of glass must not throw stones at another.
The human heart is neither of stone nor wood.
Don't throw a stone into a well from which you have drunk.
The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, roll...
Jelly Roll Morton: [Jelly Roll Morton enters the hall for the duel, meeting 1900 for the first time] I believe you're sitting in my seat. 1900: [stands, good-naturedly] You're the one that invented jazz, right? Jelly Roll Morton: That's what they say...
