
“Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.”
Interview at Swedish Radio, programme Nightflite (circus 1980) http://home.swipnet.se/bengt-jonsson/zappaint.htm#Bobby
Attributed without citation at John Cale - Quotes, xs4all.nl, 16 November 2012 http://werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/quotes/index.html,
“Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.”
Interview at Swedish Radio, programme Nightflite (circus 1980) http://home.swipnet.se/bengt-jonsson/zappaint.htm#Bobby
“Rock n roll stops the traffic”
Message spray-painted onto the Vaillancourt fountain during a free concert in San Francisco (11 November 1987)
“I'm gonna give her all my soul.
I'm gonna play her Rock 'N' Roll.”
Jack
Lyrics, Highway Companion (2006)
“Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.”
“He could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.”
In [A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America, Craig Hansen, Werner, University of Michigan Press, 2006, 9780472031474, 53] as: he can be the Duke Ellington of our times.
And in [Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis, Musicians in Their Own Words Series, Paul Maher, Michael K. Dorr, Chicago Review Press, 2009, 9781556527067, 262] as: Do you know who Prince kinda reminds me of, particularly as a piano player? Duke! Yeah, he's the Duke Ellington of the eighties to my way of thinking.
On Prince
2000s
“It's quite spiky, quite dramatic, theatrical rock 'n' roll really.”
When asked: What's your sound like? http://www.popworld.com/pages/noisettes_interview