Waylon Jennings Quotes

I think no-one was surprised to hear that Janis Joplin was dead. She seemed to be living up all of her energy that she had to give in just a few years. Now you listen to covers of her songs by various women, and it's pale in comparison.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

It's nearly redundant to enumerate the reasons The Beatles are important. There are probably different reasons why The Beatles are important to a musician like myself and to the millions of Beatles fans who just enjoy listening to the music.

By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.

One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.

At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.

I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.

I feel like Elvis. Only alive.

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world's hard drive, I would save Bob Dylan's work for sure - he's the greater talent, and by leaps and bounds and skyscrapers and rocket blasts. But Bob Dylan is an alien to his public.

I worked with George Harrison - who was the reason I started playing guitar.

To me, Hank Williams is the first rock-and-roll star.

We told you Wu-Tang was forever, and some people forgot that. It's not some fad.

Chuck Berry invented rock 'n' roll. He was one of the best songwriters of the 20th century.

I'm kind of the Forrest Gump of rock n' roll.

I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun Studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent. He was a dynamic young boy. His phraseology, his way of looking at a song, was as unique as Sinatra's. I was a tremendous fan, and had Elvis lived, there would have been no end to his inventiveness.

Is it a different New York since Lou Reed died? It’s been a different New York since I saw him in his sweatpants at the Cozy Soup ‘n’ Burger.

Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.

I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever.

Elvis was the firstest with the mostest.

You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and hes said nice things about me, you know.

Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.