Nick Lowe Quotes

Our records have always been diversified - a bit of R&B, pop, dance.

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.

I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.

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

I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock.

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.

I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal.

Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

Kids like classic rock, and so do adults.