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"Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, "nirvana" means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock."
"Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it."
"If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music."
"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes."
"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
"We've had DRM in Windows for years. The most common format of music on an iPod is "stolen"."
"Most people still steal music."
"We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity."
"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it "Chuck Berry"."
"If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!"
"Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows."
"I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition."
"I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar."
"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."
"No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to."