Fran Lebowitz Quotes

This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

Rock music is stronger than sports. That's why. Rock rules. Around the world, who's more famous: Willie Mays or Paul McCartney?

Rock and roll is here to stay.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

I played records, the kids danced, and America watched.

The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people.

I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.

Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them.

Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.

There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n' roll. When hip-hop came on the scene, it was the last legitimate creation of a new genre.

After the Ed Sullivan Show, Feb. 9, 1964, at approx. 8:04pm [laughs], after that moment every album, every guitar, evey set of drums that was ever sold ... 10% should have gone right into their pocket!

Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

No matter how young you are, you're too old for SXSW.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

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

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.