Neil Tennant Quotes

It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.

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

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

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.

I've always considered rock 'n' roll, the music and the dancing, an art form.

The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot, and it took me a while to figure out how to do it in the context of our music.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.

I consider myself more of a rock 'n' roll fiddler.

Guns N' Roses is a weighty subject, but in the same breath, I don't take it that seriously.

To me, rock and roll is not a perfect science.

A rock-and-roll group needed a name that fit criteria in three areas: It had to be great for a bowling team; it had to be great for a gang; and it had to be great for a rock-and-roll group. So we called ourselves Dion and the Belmonts.

'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.

I'd listen to a song and say, 'Hang on, I like that piano thing,' so I'd play the guitar like that and get the vibe from it, and it just evolved from the get-go. It was pretty obvious what to do; You don't think about rock n' roll: you just do it.

I didn't want to box myself into writing just rock music because you can try to force it into moments that don't want it.

Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

When it came to rock, I was always drawn to guitars.

Listening to a lot of guitar rock and roll music and feeling quite eccentric because everyone expected me to learn and develop like R&B. This kind of made me feel a little bit better, because I realized it was all the same, you know. There's no difference. It's just music.

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.

Prince is extremely soulful, but he can get real rock-'n'-rollish. So can Lenny Kravitz. Lenny's real soulful but he's got that rock with him, too. On the whole, I guess black folks ain't trying to handle rock-'n'-roll, really.