Phil Everly Quotes

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

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.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.

You can't stop rock-n-roll!

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

In my early days, I sang rock stuff, but the career didn't kick until '67.

I've always considered rock 'n' roll, the music and the dancing, an art form.

The first rock record I ever bought was 'Great Balls of Fire.' I was real little, and I went to Atlanta to get it.

Why am I a closet country music fan? Because I grew up being into rock, and I always thought that country music was, like, something my mom was into. Like, it wasn't cool. It wasn't happening. They were all singing about driving around in their trucks looking for Lulu.

The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot, and it took me a while to figure out how to do it in the context of our music.

I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything.

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.

We was on our way to fame, got matching suits and Beatle boots.

Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

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

I am more of a rock guy than I am a blues guy. People get the idea that I am a dyed in the wool blues cat, but I rock out when I do my show you know that.

I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n' roll. When hip-hop came on the scene, it was the last legitimate creation of a new genre.

We are looking at these rock 'n' roll campers, and we know what is going on in their minds because we've been there.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.