Salman Rushdie Quotes

I love old school rock and roll.

I love '50s music, all that stuff from the '50s.

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

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

We couldn't get enough of American rock 'n' roll. We'd hear it when we played American air bases in the U.K.

Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

The movie 'Rock 'n' Roll High School' was a sacred text in my household.