As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn't compose in the early American rock tradition.
The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.
A band like Avenged Sevenfold I've praised quite a bit publicly, because it's a band that has moved into that arena-size thing for a hard rock band.
There is nothing more, I guess, cannibalistic than the metal or the hard rock scene, it seems.
Technically, a Ghost song could just be piano and vocals, but it could also be full, pounding, heavy-thrashing hard rock.
I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.
After 35 years of bone-crushing rock guitar playing, I'm finally starting to get my head out of the harmonic sand and learning how to play over chord changes.
Interscope is run more like a rock band than a record company. It's run in a very spontaneous, heartfelt way.
What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.
If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.
I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
Hip hop has the urgency and rebelliousness that early rock n' roll and punk had: a level of rule-breaking and flirtation with danger. It allows you to break the rules.
I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B.
I was raised on gospel. I remember hip-hop and rock music were secular, so basically, for my first ten years living in Detroit, I was on gospel. But when I moved to Houston, that's when I got to open up my musical horizons.
If there is a Heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.
Capital Cities - the rock group - I'm a huge fan of theirs.
Hearing a lot of early rock n' roll records from a very young age was a huge influence.
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.
