“No tricks, just music, hard, lyric, joyous — pure and together, dense and warm as a dark summer country night. There’s the Dead, and then there’s everybody else.”
"From Tangiers into the Rif Mountains to hear the piping and drumming and singing of the Master Musicians of Joujouka: 'The World’s Oldest Rock and Roll Band' ”
"Little Richard epitomized everything parents feared about rock and roll. His music was brash and deviate, a screaming rush of inchoate frenzy guaranteed to get teenage blood boiling."
“Like other forms of ghetto street culture — graffiti, verbal dueling, rapping — breaking is a public arena for the flamboyant triumph of virility, wit, and skill. In short, of style.”
“When the celestial mood grips Prine the sky is thick with black angels, Jesus covers the waterfront, and God’s not in his heaven — he’s on the phone and won’t let well enough alone.”
“It’s really far out, just too fuckin’ neat, man,” said Jerry Garcia. “I mean, we’ve only just started gettin’ into what we can do. There’s no limit… and we’re all feeling good.”
“3rd Bass want to jump out there with the real kids on the block and be judged by the standards set at the source, the hip street culture of urban black Americans.”
“Hear it once and you know it’s important. Hear it twice, it makes sense. Third time around it’s fun. Fourth time, it’s subtle. On the fifth hearing, ‘Revolver’ becomes profound.”
