Ed Kowalczyk Quotes

Rock n' roll seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die.

Rock n' roll's had a good time out of me - and I've had a very good time out of rock n' roll.

We didn't invent this - this rock n' roll thing.

Rock music will never die. We all know that.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?

The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.

Rock n' roll's not dead.

Rock n' roll is a volatile thing; at least, it's supposed to be.

I love rock. I love the music that was born out of the latter part of the 20th century. It means a lot to me.

I got the craziest crash course in rock n' roll that I could have ever dreamed of.

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking.

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

New York City has more rock history in its 305 square miles than most of America combined.

Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.

I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else.

But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

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.

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.

I don't think I understood guitar rock as well as I probably should have. I don't think I understood bands like Led Zeppelin. In their era, everyone had such a regard for them because of them ushering in rock n' roll and this larger-than-life lifestyle. But then they had these songs that would just not stop. I didn't fully get it.