John Trudell Quotes

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

You can't stop rock-n-roll!

I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!

When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe dances around.

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.

I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.

'Barracuda' is very fun to play because it's like a galloping steed of a rock song.

Yes, there were piano bands and great rock pianists, from Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard to Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, and Elton John. But something about the electric guitar speaks of more than music - it epitomizes and gives voice to the rebellion, power, and sexuality of rock.

I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom.

Rock and roll is about having a good time.

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.

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

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.