Diablo Cody Quotes

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

Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read.

The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves.

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll.

I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.

I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.

The Rolling Stones were one of the best bands ever, and 'Sticky Fingers' is one of the best rock albums I've ever heard.

You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.

I don't read a lot of rock magazines for the most part.

Anyway, you know, when Richard Meltzer said rock and roll died in '68, what he means is Jefferson Airplane were no longer his buddies, that's what he really means. He means it in a political way: that was when the artists and the audience found themselves on different levels.

Rock n' roll's not dead.

Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.

In the beginning, we were a real good, straight rock 'n' roll band. We were writing quality tunes.

I wanted to have a band that could rock as hard as the Who and sing like the Beatles and the Beach Boys; a band that could play concise, three-and-a-half minute songs with power and elegance.

I listen to older music like AC/DC.

The Skynyrds and I go back to the '70s and the days and nights at the Hyatt House on Sunset in L.A., aka the Riot House.

I was a massive Rolling Stones fan, and I wanted to play music like... they do... were doing.

Led Zeppelin is what made me buy my first electric guitar: the Jimmy Page guitar sound.

I think my favorite song is by Led Zeppelin called 'Good Times Bad Times,' a Rolling Stones song called 'You Can't Always Get What You Want,' and every song The Beatles ever wrote.

If you're in a rock band, you're never too tame.

Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses.

Basically we're a blues oriented rock 'n' roll band… easy to listen to.

I consider myself more of a rock 'n' roll fiddler.

I don't know any American rock bands.