Quotes About Jann S. Wenner

Tom Wolfe, of all people, was the first person who ever told me about rap music. He liked to go to Harlem and the Bronx to watch the crews battle it out, and he was writing rap lyrics of his own.

The first thing he said was that he had seen me give the Rolling Stones credit for the magazine's name. Bob said that he and I knew full well that it came from his song. I sputtered out my explanations, but he was adamant about it and gave me a sideways look that let me off the hook a little.

Stevie Winwood, on Traffic's first tour, was our first office visitor from the world of music.

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson 1937–2005. Tales from a Weird and Righteous American Saga.

IN 1998, TOM WOLFE brought me his proposal for a new novel, A Man in Full. I didn't feel it would be right for us to try to repeat the Bonfire of the Vanities serialization.

The first Rolling Stone interview was with Donovan.

I led the record review section with Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant ("excellent")

That morning I got a telegram from Bob Dylan—"Happy Birthday, Jann. How does it feel? Now you know. Bob.

NINETEEN SEVENTY-EIGHT WAS the year of Some Girls, which I thought was the best Stones album since Let It Bleed in 1969.

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

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.