Rock and Roll Icon Quotes

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.

I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close - a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.

I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean, I go out and my music is roughly the format of rock and roll, I use the chord changes of rock and roll, but I don't feel I'm a rock and roll artist. I'd be a terrible rock artist, absolutely ghastly.

There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man.

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.

He was just dad to me. I never really looked at him as Mr. Supergroup, John Bonham.

I felt like I kind of got to know [Elvis Presley], and got a little peek inside what was going on there. That was pretty amazing.

ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

My sister, she says she knows Elvis.

Tonight, I would like to pay tribute to the greatest entertainer of all time, Mr. Elvis Presley. Elvis was Las Vegas. And if it wasn't for him, so many performers like myself would not have the chance to do what we do in this town. He really was the king.

I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world.

Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.

Mick Jagger, the greatest of all front men I've ever met in my life.

Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart.

[Elvis] Presley was definitely a great inspiration to every guy who ever had a hard-on in the whole of the Western world, I should think. He shook everybody well and true, and we just kept on shakin'. But he started it.

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

I saw my rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.

The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.

I never said I was the King Of Rock'n' Roll. I said simply that I'm the best

How much did Jim Morrison know?

I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy, and wherever you go, Elvis, we want to say we've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you.