Link Wray Quotes

#1. If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.

Neil Young

#2. Link Wray is the all-time legend.

Conan O'Brien

#3. Link Wray and Gene Vincent ... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.

John Lennon

#4. He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble', I would have never picked up a guitar.

Pete Townshend

#5. Link Wray ... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.

Neil Young

#6. I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.

Link Wray

#7. Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

Link Wray

#8. You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

Link Wray

#9. Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

Link Wray

#10. They are strong wives, devoted moms, and beautiful women, trying to find a way to earn and keep their wings because God knows, it's not easy being married to the military.

L.M. Fields

#11. Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top.

Valerie Steele

#12. Everyone seemed to be deliberately not looking at her, the way people did when you had food in your teeth and they didn't want to tell you, so they kept trying not to see.

Liane Moriarty

#13. Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

Link Wray

#14. I'm surprised that I actually pulled off the recording, getting all those people at the same time.

Link Wray

#15. We don't get all better; we don't fix everything that's broken. We just learn how to work around the broken bits. How to do the best we can with what we have, and who we are.

Lilah Pace

#16. I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

Caroline Kennedy

#17. But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

Link Wray

#18. On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.

Jean Genet

#19. When you share feelings with someone, or secrets, it adds a layer of complexity to even the simplest things.

Paula Stokes

#20. If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

Link Wray

#21. Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

Link Wray

#22. God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.

Link Wray

#23. I'm not building a game. I'm building a new country.

Philip Rosedale

#24. I'm cancer-free. And I'm on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don't have resentment any more. It's wonderful.

Louis Gossett Jr.