“[My friend Jann Wenner, the editor and publisher of Rolling Stone, the rock and roll bible, called me excitedly the day after Bill Clinton was nominated for the presidency. He had spent the previous night at a party, celebrating with Clinton.] He's one of us, ... He'll be the first rock and roll president in American history.”
Jann Wenner
“The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.”
Abbie Hoffman
“Elvis may have been the king of rock'n'roll, but I am the queen.”
Little Richard Penniman
“I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.”
Phil Spector
“You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need”
The Rolling Stones
“Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.”
Truman Capote
“Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: / The seas roll over but the rocks remain.”
A. P. Herbert
