I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.
We didn't invent this - this rock n' roll thing.
[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.
You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.
You could feel the place going crazy because we hadn't been on stage together for maybe 35 years and the audience could just feel us in the darkness come on and they went nuts. It made the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck and we sang Sit on My Face, which I thought was wonderfully appropriate for George's memorial, and then we bowed and we showed our bare asses.
With how huge Yes was, especially in the '70s and '80s, as a touring band and actually playing at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to 130,000 people, which is the biggest-paying show ever in rock history, you would think we'd done enough for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Rock n' roll's had a good time out of me - and I've had a very good time out of rock n' roll.
Give me a strapless gown and a rhinestone-studded guitar and some 55-year-olds in my audience, along with their kids and grandkids. Don't give me 'boogie'!
You can't be, like, smashing guitars against Marshall stacks all the time. As a matter of fact, after a while, it just looks like posing - it never really gets down to any message or any real expression.
Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.
It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.
I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.
I feel proud to be a part of rock n' roll and the whole tradition of rock n' roll.
I'm actually much more of a rock player than many people think.
I got the craziest crash course in rock n' roll that I could have ever dreamed of.
When we began to tour, no one expected me to be a part of the band, so I used that as a tool, and would start the set off-stage or in the audience, as a surprise, because no one expected this little girl to get up and rock the way I do.
A lot of what I've done has a rock edge, even going back to 'Little Shop of Horrors.'
The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
Primal Scream could be the biggest band in the world. They are fantastic when they make rock records - once every 10 years.
Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then, you get a big ovation while the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around.
By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.
Styx was always a theatrical band. In fact, we played City Center in 1983 with a rock opera, 'Kilroy Was Here.'
Being a classical musician, you can go to school for it; you can go get a degree. Even as a composer, there is a certain career path you can follow, but becoming a rock musician is a much more elusive career. How do you learn that or do that?
I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.
