Beth Hart Quotes

I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in Little Richard and Chuck Berry.

I always wanted to make rock music as well or as an element of what I do.

I was a born rock n' roll sax player.

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

Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs.

Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.

My first instrument was bass, and the first thing that I remember learning to play that was better than a few notes was Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain.' If you're the guy who penned that bass riff, then you should probably be in some sort of fantasy band.

I'm a rock and roll kid, but to me, rock and roll isn't just four idiots banging their instruments really loud.

Breaking Benjamin, talk about songwriting, I mean, some of the greatest songwriters of the modern era. And, obviously, it's a little heavier.

'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.

I love blues, mellow rock 'n' roll.

I play music from Queen, to Elton John, to classic.

A lot of your rock people, even early, like Elvis, have always come from the South.

I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

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.

'Master of Reality' rules; it's one of my favorite records of all time. It has some of the most evil riffs on it - and some of the sexiest riffs as well.

We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.

'Routine' was written on piano, and you can hear that. But then you listen to 'Happy Returns,' and you can tell it's definitely been written on guitar, with that singer-songwriter-y strumming quality.

Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.

When it comes to songwriting, I grew up in the Seventies listening to AM radio. So I've all these pop songs running through my head from Paul McCartney and Elton John, and a lot of stuff that was written on piano.

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together... like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band was called Roasted Peanuts.