Weyes Blood Quotes

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.

Rock and roll is commitment. Rock and roll is passion and spirit.

Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

I loved everything that went with rock n' roll. I loved being at the heart of such creativity and being young in such a stimulating and exciting era.

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

I like the Foo Fighters a lot - apart from them being friends of mine as well. They're definitely a fantastic live act to see: so much energy and possibly even bigger in Europe than they are in the U.S., and that's great.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'

When we started, I was just having fun with it I didn't even know about doing it for a living. It was a new style of music, a combo of punk and metal.

Our band is rock n' roll. We were never just a studio band trying to make everything perfect. It was never supposed to be perfect. It was supposed to be cool.

He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.

Rock and roll is about having a good time.

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.

When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.

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

The kids are interested in the music of them. They're not interested in mop-tops and Beatle boots and crazy suits. It's all down to the music now - that's what they hear, and that's what they love.

If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that