Bjork Quotes

I wasn't into pop music, even at a really young age.

Classical music is for listening but rock and roll is to have fun with.

Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing with my brother. But I was always drawn back into classical music.

Ah, it's awesome learning about theater, but it's a completely different musical landscape from rock and roll.

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.

I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain preference too, be honest.

I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello.

Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

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

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.

I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

I don't listen to a ton of rock music.

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?

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.

Rock isn't a young music anymore. I don't think it's necessarily even a youth-oriented music.

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.

Before Dylan, before rock became art, it was a wonderful fusion of pop structure and personal statements.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

The other guys in Hootie were into rock. I brought the country influence.

For some reason, as a kid, I felt outwardly embarrassed to say that I liked rock music. I don't know where that came from. For me, it just wasn't cool - orchestral music was cool.

If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.