"I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands."
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"Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?"
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"Don't tell me baby you gotta go, I got the hifi high and the lights down low."
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"Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face."
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"African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll."
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"We know that drugs, sex and rock and roll stimulates something called dopamine in the brain. So do videogames. Dopamine is something that we crave."
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"I like all like classic rock bands like The Beatles and The Who and stuff and Led Zeppelin so I kinda dress like that. Kinda retro I guess. Well not retro but, like tight. I don't know. Like just jeans and shirts. I don't know. Kinda rock and roll I guess."
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"I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as was I ... these were the rock and roll guys who really sparked our interest in the guitar, and later we delved into other things and went different directions ... during my time with Eric Clapton, we talked about what we'd listened to early on, and he was a huge fan of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis"
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"I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music."
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"Out stretched hands and one night stands, still I can't find love."
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"Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me."
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"I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll."
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"My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music."
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"Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn."
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"He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun."
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"It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll."
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"He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar."
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"I am a D.J., I am what I play."
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"One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir."
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"You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage."
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