Cliff Richard Quotes

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player.

My first band, we wanted to be like Foreigner and Journey.

When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock and roll was not just entertainment, it was the center of people's lives. When I was young, it was exciting and interesting.

We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.

I don't have any dreams or aspirations or goals I want to meet music-wise, so there's nothing to keep me from being level-headed.

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.

When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

My style is part of the music I like, the bands I see, the people I surround myself with, the places I go to.

I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.

I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.

Pete Townshend is one of my greatest influences. More than any other guitarist, he taught me how to play rhythm guitar and demonstrated its importance, particularly in a three-piece band.

If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever.

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.

Everybody had posters in their room; everybody had the four symbols of Zeppelin on the wall and all that.

For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that.

When Destiny's Child released their first record, I don't think I even noticed. I was still at school, and I had my own life in Houston.

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

I was 15 years old in 1972, and yeah, when the 1970s broke, I was out there. Everything was kinda swirling around me - the music, women, cars, the culture.

Amplification of guitars revolutionized the popular music scene. Youngsters look for quick fame and big money with amplified guitars and working with rock groups.