Levon Helm Quotes

Being a rock star rocks.

You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don't walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can't play anything, except primitively.

I think being a rock star is a little bit different than being an athlete or even a movie star.

I never thought I'd be a, quote, 'rock & roll star.'

You can't buy being a rock star.

The one thing that's depressing as a comedian to realize is that rock stars get groupies, and comedians don't.

I wanted girls to scream at me. I wanted to be a rock star.

When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.

On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely.

Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.

The fans make the person a star.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.

I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

I think it would be really awesome to be a rock star.