Jim James Quotes

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

If you actually go back and listen to my first album, there are some things on there that are kind of rock 'n' roll.

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

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

I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child.

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.

To me, a lot people really get wrapped up in the technical side of metal and what's metal and what's not and more double-kick and more blast beats and more technicality, but for me, I'm a song person. So I think you can write good songs in any type of style of rock and any type of style of metal, and that's kind of what I'm a fan of.

We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.

In my early days, I sang rock stuff, but the career didn't kick until '67.

When the Eagles were starting out in the early '70s, it would have been hard to imagine anyone in the fledgling, country-accented rock group someday seriously challenging the artistic punch of Neil Young or Joni Mitchell.

When the second album came out, everybody gravitated immediately to the three and a half minute rock tunes and ignored the ballads. They thought all the Raspberries were was players of high-energy rock songs.

We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.

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

Every record from New Found Glory is a little different. We're a real band that writes songs about our everyday relationships - like, our personal war, not war and government or politics.

I'm a hundred percent a rock n' roll guy.

I did alternative rock before. That's why my style is the way it is now.

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

The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot, and it took me a while to figure out how to do it in the context of our music.

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

As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with it sometimes; otherwise, you turn it into pop music or progressive rock or something else.

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'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.

To me, rock and roll is not a perfect science.