Roger Taylor Quotes

Once you've established yourself with hits that become part of people's lives, then they pretty much always want to see you.

We are just continually surprised and obviously happy that the interest in Queen and Freddie keeps alive. It's a constant source of pleasure for ourselves.

I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.

Elvis' songs will always be there, and I hope mine will be after I'm gone.

It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sick of talking about 'Jessie's Girl.' The thing is, I didn't write 'Blurred Lines.' I didn't direct the music video. I'm really happy for the success, but it is kind of a funny thing to follow me around.

If you go to pretty much everywhere in the developing world, you will find Bob Marley murals, and you'll find people playing his music.

If somebody told me people would still care about our music 25 years ago, I would have thought they were crazy.

We've influenced other artists, and when younger generations become fans of those artists and hear about us, they discover our music too.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed.

Wherever I go, people still shout out: 'Hey, hey, we're The Monkees.' And I never tire of that.

Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.

Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.

Great songs stand out wherever they're from.

I really like The Vamps. I'm friends with a couple of the guys from the band, so that's fun.

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

I don't want to just sell out shows to young girls who like my movie franchise. I want to sell tickets because people respect me.