Toni Basil Quotes

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

I've always really been a big fan of rock music. I wanted to record rock music when I was 14 or 15, but I was too young; it would have been ridiculous.

To me, rock and roll is not a perfect science.

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.

By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

I want to do rock operas.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

I loved music and dance, and that was exciting to me.

Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.

First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a brilliant actor. But, to me, they're still great vehicles for expression.

We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.

Music is a living art.

I've said this many times: Rock 'n' roll is this magnet for dysfunctional people who only know how to communicate through the medium of a live show.

I love making music, and performing, that will always be there.

I just love music - I was always singing and dancing.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay. I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

Rock n' roll is a pretty fun job.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.