Rickey Medlocke Quotes

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.

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

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

I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.

Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

Rock n' roll's not dead.

Skynyrd's not just a band; I think it's a lifestyle. It's iconic.

I knew the guys in the Allman Brothers way back in the day, before they were famous.

I was a Skynyrd fan before I was approached to be a part of Skynyrd, and they always ended it with 'Free Bird,' so I've been watching it since I was a kid.

It's all these young country bucks doing Skynyrd songs, which is pretty cool to us.

Rock was born in the South, so saying 'Southern rock' is like saying 'rock rock.'

Look at Gretchen Wilson. If she came out in the '70s she'd be the queen of Southern rock.

Even in 1971, J. Geils was into the Stones. When I heard Geils, I realized that a lot of other people hearing them had never heard the Stones.

I think rock 'n' roll, in a way, has been dead for a long time.

I love the fact that young people are into rock 'n' roll music.

Country music, like rock or blues, can move over into a lot of different areas.

We looked at the Allman Brothers as the fathers of what was to be called Southern rock. In our book, if you didn't like the Allman Brothers, you were sacrilegious.