Debbie Harry Quotes

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

We don't want to categorize our music. Some people say you need a definite musical direction to give a group visibility.

[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.

I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.

I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom.

Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.

Rock and roll is about having a good time.

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.

The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

Rock music is niche.

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing becomes Fleetwood Mac until that's what you call it.

I wouldn't necessarily say she is a country artist. I mean, obviously Taylor Swift started in country, but she morphed into somewhat of a cultural icon, so, who am I to judge what she is?

I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.