Prince Quotes

I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.

No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom.

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

I didn't just write about boys and relationships like usual. I wrote about other things: rock 'n' roll, nostalgia, Hello Kitty.

Trends in culture all serve a purpose and that's always indicative in fashion and music, you can always tell what's going on culturally in the mindset of the young generation if you look at those mediums.

The kids are interested in the music of them. They're not interested in mop-tops and Beatle boots and crazy suits. It's all down to the music now - that's what they hear, and that's what they love.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.

A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.

There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.

I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued running around in teddyboy gangs. Today, well... I'd probably be a laborer. I'm glad I'm not, of course. It'll be nice to be part of history... some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids.

Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life

Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar.