Musical Legacies Quotes

Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave know best. Although I wear a lot of jeans, I've been told that Nick Cave doesn't own a pair and wouldn't be caught dead in denim.

I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

I don't think you'd say we'd be rivals because we've got a completely different line-up to The Beatles.

Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.

Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.