Rocks Quotes

In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock ‘n’ roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren’t, that they didn’t even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.

… so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee … those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock & Roll) … you can really tell on some tracks … they were actually afraid at times of what they were playing. But Rock & Roll definitely didn’t come before that time; it started right there

I remember when in the early days of rock’n’roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah. Now you can play me one second of any record from that time, and I’ll say “1959” or “1961.” I can hear precisely. It’s like it has a huge date stamp on it.