Robbie Robertson Quotes

I ended up doing these other diverse things, but King Tuff is the thing I always wanted to come back to - just good, straightforward rock n' roll. That music is the most me, you know?

Rock and roll is about having a good time.

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I played drums for, like, four years.

I would never have thought I would see Axl Rose, someone who was so important to rock 'n' roll.

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.

I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn't a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality.

I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One More Time' on the radio and I thought 'What is this?' I was eight and it changed my life.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.

You can't stop rock-n-roll!

We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time.

I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do.

The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.

My dad has been playing guitar basically all his life. He's sort of who got me into rock music.

I'd love to have Jack White up. I think he's just a phenomenal guitar player. I'd love to see him play up close because he's got a killer voice, and he's a great lead player, too. That would be exciting to me.

I was a born rock n' roll sax player.

To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.

There is nothing wrong about being a rock n' roll guitar player.

Of course I was a fan when I was a kid. That's what made me get into it, the whole rock n' roll fantasy.

He might have been in Led Zeppelin, but to me he was just dad.