Roger Taylor Quotes

I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.

I guess the idea of doing albums in their entirety, in sequence, appeals to people. I guess it's the memory of being able to hear the music in the way it was originally presented.

I got archives of records. I have records from when I was 17 that I still think are pretty dope.

Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.

I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.

It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

I've been an REM fan since I was a little girl. I would jump around to 'Stand' in the mirror.

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!

I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me.

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.

I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

I tour Europe a lot. They still have a love and a fascination with the basic thing about music - how it feels and that being the focus. I've got people bringing their kids. And their kids bring their kids. The grandchildren are getting selfies with their Uncle Al.

I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.

I never met Johnny Cash personally, but I feel like I did because I listened to so much of his music, and even though he's gone, it's still there: you can go pull a vinyl record out and hear his personal thoughts and his voice and feel connected to him.

I understand people who say, 'There is no Queen without Freddie. Just leave it be.' Because that's what we felt, following his death. All three of us said, 'Right, that's the end of the band.' But the band just didn't seem to die.

So if radio flops, and MTV flops and everything flops, it doesn't matter, as long as we're still playing and kids are coming to our shows.

When it comes to music, I'm such a fan of music and it makes me feel so much.

Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.

My whole life, I've sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I've had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

Metal fans are just as compassionate and caring and tolerant as any other form of music fans are.