Bette Midler Quotes

I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old.

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it was done well. So energetically, again I felt like it was in line with punk rock and maybe hard rock, more than it was in line with R&B, which I never really liked.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me

I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've always acted kind of like a man.

Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?

What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.

Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n' roll. When hip-hop came on the scene, it was the last legitimate creation of a new genre.

I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both.

I like rock & roll, and I don't like much else.

The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.

Being a female hard rocker and guitar player, I felt the need to put out a memoir. Almost like a rock 'n' roll women manual for women.

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

I'm definitely really into rock music, and I feel like that is where my heart is.

Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared everybodys parents, which was part of the attraction then - as it still is now... it totally blindsided me and made me want to get a guitar and do that.

If I did a Rock record, it would be equally as truthful because I love Rock. I had to actually sing to Bon Jovi one time and I felt like he believed me. He's one of my favorite artists, so there's nothing better than the truth.

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

A girl can't sing rock & roll too well. It's basically too savage.

My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die.

Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made.

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.