Joe J. Walsh Quotes

EDM is here to stay. If you're 19 years old, this is your rock 'n' roll.

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

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

America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

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

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

I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio.

As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.

Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know?And it was such a turn around, I guess it caught people by surprise.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

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.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.