Rainn Wilson Quotes

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

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

People say that rock 'n' roll is dead, and I am making it my mission to resurrect it. I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

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

The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

I got really frustrated in jail, and I was like, 'Man, I love what I've done, and I love the mark I've made on rock n' roll history'... and I sat there, and I got really depressed, thinking, 'I gotta make a move... do something fresh and new.'

To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.

Rock n' roll's not dead.

I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child.

In my early days, I sang rock stuff, but the career didn't kick until '67.

Pup, who's like the most amazing, they're keeping rock 'n' roll and punk alive.

When the Eagles were starting out in the early '70s, it would have been hard to imagine anyone in the fledgling, country-accented rock group someday seriously challenging the artistic punch of Neil Young or Joni Mitchell.

There's everybody in the world who is always trying, time and time again, to proclaim the death of rock, or hard rock and heavy metal. Not if I have anything to do with it, not if we have anything to do with it.

But somehow I feel the world is taking me away from my original rock roots of inspiration. Rock and roll is losing its past glory.

Our first two records are a lot quieter and more studio-based. We kind of had this feeling like we wanted to make a more quote-unquote 'rock' record. Then Patrick joined and really brought a new Herculean power to the band.

As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with it sometimes; otherwise, you turn it into pop music or progressive rock or something else.

If you actually go back and listen to my first album, there are some things on there that are kind of rock 'n' roll.

Guns N' Roses is a weighty subject, but in the same breath, I don't take it that seriously.

I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated.

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues. What we're trying to do is play rock 'n' roll, but other people call it different things.

It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time, I don't think we're stuck in the past or retro. I think we've tried to push ourselves and experiment with what we can call Wilco music.

I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.