Quotes About Rolling Stone

I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't true. What became important was to have a point of view.

When my editors and I at 'Rolling Stone' came up with the idea to do a profile of General McChrystal, I simply just e-mailed General McChrystal's press staff, said we wanted to do a profile, and said if you could give us any time to hang out with the general, that would be great.

I saw 'Rolling Stone' magazine once, and they were talking about the top 50 songs, and there wasn't one Sly song; how does that happen? But, Sly isn't the type to brown nose for props. He's always known what he had, what he was capable of; I'm just proud that he took the time and effort to put it to music.

Shortly after college, I was working in New York City at 'Rolling Stone' magazine.

It's funny I'm talking to 'Rolling Stone' right now, because back then, it was like, 'Punk rock? Put it back. It's just a flash in the pan.'

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a canonizing institution. Jann Wenner has worked to make Rolling Stone the keeper of the canon since 1970. I don't like that, because he uses institutional power and he uses economic power to enforce those standards.

Rolling Stone, still a hippie newspaper in San Francisco, won for its stories on Altamont and Charles Manson

The first Rolling Stone interview was with Donovan.

Hello, I'm Al Gore. I am a contributing writer to Rolling Stone. I used to be the next president of the United States…

In Hartford, Connecticut, on the Working on a Dream tour, Max Weinberg's son was sitting in on drums. There's a lot of buzz about this, and Bruce thinks it would make a perfect Rolling Stone story, which it will. Clarence Clemons, Bruce's iconic sax player, is taken from his dressing room to the stage on a golf cart.

Rolling Stone was selling almost as many copies in London as in Los Angeles and had a big reputation.

Wallace, it turned out, was a big fan of Rolling Stone and me. When he died we had hours of tape of him trying to explain his life.

Before beginning, mark the solemn words of 'Nigel Norris' – a fictitious freelance writer for Rolling Stone, setting out his stall in Howard Schuman's television drama of 1976, Rock Follies, episode three, 'The Road': Norris: 'I think one should apply the same critical standards to rock music as to any other art form.