Merry Clayton Quotes

This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son.

I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.

When it comes to the stage, I can't help but be inspired by people like George Clinton, Elton John and Alice Cooper.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

We've always been just an American rock n' roll band.

I remember when I went to see Led Zeppelin live in 1979 at Knebworth, there were certain songs that stood out to me and will stay with me forever.

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like magic.

You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

I hope fans will go back and listen to the Beatles and the Beach Boys or Led Zeppelin, or put on 'Tommy' and let them experience like I did that moment when 'Pinball Wizard' comes on.

Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.

I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever.

My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks.

A lot of the people I'd love to work with, like John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, aren't alive, unfortunately.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.

Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!

My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.