Occupation: Singer-Songwriter Birth: July 5, 1943 Death: December 28, 2015
Boy, do I got some stories to tell..
When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize..
I think the world of Chuck Berry..
Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation..
There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity..
The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at….
I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I ca….
Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been..
By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll..
I wanted to develop a guitar style where phrases and lines get there just in the nick of time, like with Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper. Subtletie….
When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked..
I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling..
Some music is supposed to be disposable; that's OK. A lot of music is fun for today, but it isn't supposed to be timeless; it's supposed to be trendy..
Time is not kind to everything..
When people get together that come from different musical backgrounds, a lot of times there's is a good ... it's very enjoyable to say somebody, let ….
I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'.
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new names for t….
Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll..