Malcolm Mclaren Quotes

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

Rock n' roll means so much more to people; it enriches the culture. Also, it inspires people; there's no half-feeling. When I first got into it, I was inspired by people who had come before me, and I found myself in the position of handing that on.

Rock n' roll doesn't change. All the idiocies and pretension continue.

I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.

Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it - my music, I know I will live forever.

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

Rock n' roll seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.

I consider the electric guitar to be like a drum with strings. It became the drum of the Baby Boom generation. And the drum has always been the center of the tribe, a new electronic tribe.