By Buddy Holly
"It's destiny, Peggy Sue...everything's destiny."
"Without Elvis, none of us would have made it."
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About Buddy Holly
"He made it easy to wear glasses. I was Buddy Holly." John Lennon
"Buddy Holly gave you confidence. He was like the boy next door." Paul McCartney
"Everything Buddy did, he did with a sense of urgency - that he wasn't going to have a lot of time. That's sort of how he picked up his music - he didn't slow down at all... I think it was because he was doing what he wanted to do more than anything." Larry Holley
"The interplay and intimacy between words, voice and music in Buddy Holly's records was something new in pop music." Dave Laing, The Sound of Our Time
"Looking back from the twin peaks of psychedelic and electronic gadgetry, he [Holly] comes through fresher than ever." Lillian Roxon, Rock Encyclopedia
"It's pretty tough to describe an uninhibited genius, and that's really what he was... He was serious about getting his ideas across to the public. He wasn't anyone else other than Holly. He did exactly what he felt - I think this honesty and lack of inhibitions was what the young people like." Norman Petty
"Buddy Holly was in England as solid as Elvis. Everything (that) came out was a record smash number one. By about '58, it was either Elvis or Buddy Holly. It was split into two camps. The Elvis fans were the heavy leather boys and the Buddy Holly ones all somehow looked like Buddy Holly." Keith Richards, Rolling Stone
"Buddy had this confidence-he had a lot of charisma when he played. When I saw Elvis, I couldn't believe it. Holly had the same kind of stage presence." Jerry Allison, drummer of The Crickets
"Buddy Holly, rock 'n' roll's Mozart, was a myopic, tooth-capped hero of the monochrome Eisenhower era. Since his death in 1959, having achieved more at 22 than most musicians in a generous lifetime, the world has witnessed Kennedy and the hula-hoop, Vietnam and the kaftan, a giant leap for mankind and the hot-air hand-drier, Dylan and Dallas, Thatcher and the thoughts of Chairman Mao. But Holly, ignorant of all this, has stayed perfectly still." John Collis, The Guardian, August 30, 1986
"Although Holly's rock n' roll career was brief, it yielded a wealth of material. 'Words of Love' inspired the Beatles (whose very name was a homage to the Crickets) and 'Not Fade Away' provided the Rolling Stones with their first British Top Ten hit. Holly's approach suggested the shape of rock to come: he wrote his own material, exploited studio technology and employed the now classic lineup of two guitars, bass and drums. In a short span of time, Buddy Holly created music that was timeless." Rolling Stone, February, 1986
"Buddy Holly was the start of everything. His music had it all." Keith Richards
"I have always reckoned that songwriters and guitar players are born and not made, and that sure applied to Buddy Holly. He just had this inborn talent." Marty Robbins
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