Dennis DeYoung Quotes

The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

Australia is so entrenched in rock n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.

If you went to school in Nashville, you were aware of all those '60s rockabilly people.

Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.

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.

Laurel Canyon area music is legendary.

I think rock 'n' roll, in a way, has been dead for a long time.

I lived at the greatest time in the history of mankind to be a musician.

Rock n' roll's not dead.

There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles and from there I just loved rock music.

What I do know is rock and roll and metal never goes away, ever. It took the back seat in America in the '90s. In Japan and South America, it was still really big. I never followed trends, so I don't know the exact function of them.

Without people like Dylan and the Beatles and people like Paul Simon, I think rock n' roll would have died out like Dixieland jazz.

Thanks to the arrival of such spirited and purposeful groups as X, the Blasters, R.E.M., and the Replacements, American rock has made a spectacular comeback.

We really like L.A. because it really likes rock and roll.

Pup, who's like the most amazing, they're keeping rock 'n' roll and punk alive.

What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.

Rock 'n' roll is a crazy world, and it's how things work out you can't predict.

The Seattle explosion was what saved rock from becoming too pompous! A great moment in music!

Most youngsters are so well-connected with the rock music circle that they will know instantly if I attempt to imitate any rock star.

Growing up with a dad who was a classic-rock guy, I felt out of place with what was happening in pop culture. The Beatles, Zeppelin, T. Rex - that, for me, was the music that could never leave our vocabulary.

Rock 'n' roll guitar came from blues guitar. It was the blues guys who first turned the amp up and started whacking on the Stratocaster and a Les Paul. It wasn't the country guys and it wasn't the white guys; it was the Blues guys. That's where the real fire is in all of this rock and roll music.

Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis had enormous talent, and Elvis was the major contributor to an entirely new genre of music. Sometimes their exploits were distasteful to people, but they left behind an enormous body of work that endures.

By 27, Bob Dylan had already written 'Highway 61 Revisited,' the Beatles had released 'Rubber Soul,' Bruce Springsteen had recorded 'Born to Run' and U2 had delivered 'The Joshua Tree.'