Rock Legend Quotes

But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.

I wasn't a Prince fan until I watched Purple Rain. When I watched that, it was one of my favorite movies of all time because it shows the life of an artist.

In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.

Everyone wanted to play like Eric Clapton in the early to mid-'60s.

Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.

Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our spiritual leader, our guru. I always thought that if I was to be a hundred, somehow Bowie would be a hundred and fifteen. He'd be there to still steer me and guide me.

My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.

I ran into Axl [Rose] at a club some year ago and told him he's crazy, we all miss them, and he needs to get the band back together.

The only guest star I really wanted to get but didn't was Bruce Springsteen.

The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.

Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.

David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.

AC/DC will never retire; Angus will never retire.

Springsteen - he's the Lord God.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.

If you loved music, you loved Freddie Mercury.

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

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

I like Dave Grohl, I guess he's a little newer. It makes you shake, it's uppity and spirited.

Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.

Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made.