Ronnie Hawkins Quotes

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

I love to play gigs.

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.

My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

I don't care about the gold records and all of that stuff. I care about what we do onstage, and the joy that we bring to people.

The world wants rock bands to be idiots.

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'll keep doing it until I die or the audiences die.

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.

The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

That's what music has always been to me: a feel. I've listened to the Stones many times and it still makes me have that feeling of joy every time. They are still around and put on a really exciting show. We also give it 120 percent.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

I still do lots of gigs where I'm the support act and people are chatting through my set, but I've got better at grabbing attention. I mean, my parents would play on bills with people like Judas Priest and get booed all the way through. But they stuck it out, got tough.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

I was very friendly with Jimi Hendrix because my boyfriend at the time, Tommy Weber, was making a film about him, so I would go to all of his shows.

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, it's a vulnerable place to be in, it's a huge thing to do.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

I always tell people that the music industry may be frustrating sometimes, but the singing never gets old. It's something I grew up doing, and I take the bitter with the sweet.