Bobby Keys Quotes

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

The first record I ever listened to was Elvis Presley, and I remember thinking, 'Man this guy is cool!' The swagger he had really helped my confidence, because he really made me think that a white boy could make music like this.

I was an Elvis freak. That's all I listened to growing up.

I love '50s music, all that stuff from the '50s.

Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

We couldn't get enough of American rock 'n' roll. We'd hear it when we played American air bases in the U.K.

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

I'm a fan of all music, and probably my first - well, not the very first music I listened to, but back in the late fifties, when I first started hearing rock & roll, it was definitely tinged with doo wop and also Elvis and all those great songs.

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

The only person that anybody's ever said I resemble is a young Elvis. It used to happen a lot more when I was younger, and more when I don't wear a hat.

One thing about Texas people, they're very passionate about their Rock N' Roll, and I love it.

The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.'

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

I loved everything that went with rock n' roll. I loved being at the heart of such creativity and being young in such a stimulating and exciting era.

My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.

Fashion and all that comes after the music.

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

I love old school rock and roll.

I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.

When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees.

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.

The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Frankie Laine all topped the charts in the '50s. Load a playlist of rock n' roll royalty. You're spoilt for choice.

If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.