Lee Ryan Quotes

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.

Singing rock n' roll - they called it singing for the devil. But we all wanted an opportunity to compete in the music industry, and that was the opportunity.

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

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

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.

Rock music is niche.

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.

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.

At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.

If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

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

I was the illegitimate child of the legitimate theater. I had no training. I came from downtown rock and roll, and when I came in and auditioned for the Broadway revival of 'Hair,' I had no eyebrows - kind of a Bowie-esque glimmer kid. And it was hard representing the flower power era when we were stone cold punks.

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.