Karen Carpenter Quotes

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

If you actually go back and listen to my first album, there are some things on there that are kind of rock 'n' roll.

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it was done well. So energetically, again I felt like it was in line with punk rock and maybe hard rock, more than it was in line with R&B, which I never really liked.

I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.

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. What we're trying to do is play rock 'n' roll, but other people call it different things.

It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time, I don't think we're stuck in the past or retro. I think we've tried to push ourselves and experiment with what we can call Wilco music.

I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.

Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?

It just seemed like all the records I have made since Creedence Clearwater Revival have all been sort of pushed off center. I felt like I was dancing around the outskirts of what is my true center. With this album, I really wanted to stay on the mark, right in the middle, right where rock 'n' roll is. I wanted this one to be easier, a lot more fun than some of the past records have been.

It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that

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

When people talk about gender-benders and bracket me with George, I always think I'm not like that. I had more of a rock edge, mixed with the 80s electro.

As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.