Ronnie Hawkins Quotes

I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.

I'm a rock and roll singer.

In the real world, people just get on with their lives. And that's where AC/DC come in.

Capital Cities - the rock group - I'm a huge fan of theirs.

'Rock Or Bust' is a thing we've always done.

In 1956, I began playing in a band with Boz Scaggs.

We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.

I saw Cheap Trick play 'In Color,' and it was awesome.

Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play while you're at your peak, right? I think that's encouraging us to keep going out on the road - to maximize the playing at the moment.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

I really like The Vamps. I'm friends with a couple of the guys from the band, so that's fun.

Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

I love going on tour and playing music for people.

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.