Charlotte Caffey Quotes

King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don't think it's just a hall of fame and it's not just a museum. It's a schoolhouse. It's a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we're making a living out of.

What we admit to is being a rock n' roll band. From day one, I was a big Chuck Berry fan.

My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it was at Saint Martins College of Art in 1975. We were opening up for a band called Bazooka Joe, and their bass player at the time was Adam Ant, who went on to form Adam and the Ants.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician.

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

I never thought a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland or anywhere else was a good idea.

When you look at the artists who have come up through 'Billboard' over the years, it's incredible.

There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.

As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.

The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.

It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

You know, with bands like Kiss back out on the road and Aerosmith coming out, we are going to be a band like that, in the sense that it's a big rock band.

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period. It stopped in 1950.

There's a lot of politics in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There's a lot us artists would change about the induction ceremony and who they pick.

I have a lot of respect for these rock photographers. You realize that some of them were really led into the inner circles of some of these artists and bands. And you see how those photographs really capture the artist, the moment.

I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.

The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People don't win; they lose.

I saw footage of Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley just hanging out together in Memphis when they were young guys getting started at Sun, listening to records together. That was beautiful to me.