Steve Jones Quotes

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

What we admit to is being a rock n' roll band. From day one, I was a big Chuck Berry fan.

I started playing in my first band when I was 12. I like to date myself by saying I was in a New Age band when it wasn't ironic; it was actually called new wave because it was new.

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it.

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.

Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!

I never really followed grunge.

I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.

As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.

Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two.

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

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.

The first show I ever played was the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington. It was girl night, and I was in Heavens To Betsy. I had just turned 18.

I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.

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.

Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.

We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for.

I did some stage when I was a kid, around 16 or so. I was living in Melbourne and had a band. I was quite young. We weren't very good. Then I found a band in Perth. We played around for three years. We're in the 'History of Rock'N'Roll,' a book about Perth music.

Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.