Quotes About 1950s Rock And Roll

#1. My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.

Bruno Mars

#2. I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

Candice Bergen

#3. It's cold out. It's even cold in Florida. So cold today that Katherine Harris put on a third layer of makeup.

Jay Leno

#4. Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.

James Nesbitt

#5. Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

Paul Fry

#6. I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

Jonathan Pryce

#7. Libraries are forever.

Elaine Svenonius

#8. He's standing in a cluster of black T-shirts - together, they look like the wilted petals on a single dead flower.

Holly Schindler

#9. People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.

Moby

#10. Magic is one thing, and reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits is another.

Terry Pratchett

#11. Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

James Purdy

#12. We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.

James Norton

#13. When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.

Bobby Keys