Quotes About Rock

What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.

I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's always been what I was like and been my interest.

I always wanted to be in a band with a bunch of dudes who loved Green Day and all that.

Sam Cooke was a gospel singer like myself, and when he crossed over and started singing rock n' roll, it kind of gave me the green light to go ahead and do it.

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.

I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.

I experimented with fashion as it being more like art, allowing what I wore to express what I was feeling on the inside. Androgyny, rock culture, and grunge - they definitely had an effect on the things that made me feel cool and comfortable.

The Melvins are grunge.

Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.

I never really followed grunge.

I was born in '76, but I didn't get into rock until the early '90s when the grunge stuff started coming out.

Guilty pleasure - I love Falling in Reverse. Ronnie Radke is just amazing.

It's actually not that hard to play guitar in a rock band.

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

Having pop sensibilities from my past and also being a lead blues and sort of rock guitarist allowed me to bring that kind of beachy rock groove.

When I was a kid, I was interested in folk music. But rock represented power, and I became the best rock guitarist in my school.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.

I still believe guitars will be around as long as there's rock music.

Dawes is a rock 'n' roll band playing guitars, writing songs, working in a certain tradition. Through our attitude and personality, I hope, you can hear a song and go, 'That's a Dawes song.'

Certainly that's what I like in a lot of the music that I listen to, kind of a sexual energy. Guitars and rock get it across best for me.

I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again.

I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.