Top 100 Quotes About Rock And Roll
#1. America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of poverty and oppression. Of home and freedom.
Orson Scott Card
#2. No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.
Nicholas Meyer
#3. Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz
Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug
If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug
Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug.
Q-Tip
#4. You are my Marilyn. You are my lake full of fishes. You are my sky set, my 'Hollywood in Miniature,' my pink Cadillac, my highway, my martini, the stage for my heart to rock and roll on, the screen where my movies light up.
Francesca Lia Block
#5. Chocolate thickens the saliva, which isn't good news if you've gotta recite Shakespeare or sing Iron Man. Having said that, you're not supposed to drink tea either but I still do before gigs. It's not very rock and roll, but it's like a magic potion to me.
Ozzy Osbourne
#6. I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.
Matt Berninger
#7. Foul smell of the things that we do to escape
There is no glamour in this. No rock and roll.
This is just endings. This is just grief.
Kate Tempest
#8. In my opinion, hip-hop has a lot to do with rock and roll, because at one point it was considered an alternative - edgy, independent. Hip-hop is pots and pans the way that punk is garage. You make something out of nothing.
CeeLo Green
#9. I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Edward Furlong
#10. There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books and fake ghetto music. Elvis Presley, whom they idol, is merely a karaoke makeover of James Brown and Chuck Berry.
Ishmael Reed
#11. Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.
Willie Nelson
#12. I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.
David Lynch
#13. I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.
Greg Saunier
#14. If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
John Lennon
#15. That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.
Adam Rich
#16. Everyone should be encouraged ... in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.
John Cale
#17. I'm glad to see that the crusading spirit of your forebears hasn't been entirely obliterated by rock and roll.
Ken Follett
#18. Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent.
Kim Fowley
#20. The 60's are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
Abbie Hoffman
#22. The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones."
"That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#23. Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away.
Dobie Gray
#24. My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.
Travis Barker
#25. Rock and roll is about having a good time, so no matter
where you are right now blast some music and forget
about lifes problems.
Andy Biersack
#26. Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.
Krist Novoselic
#27. It's important to realize that everybody who went into country music, and most everybody who went into rock and roll in the '50s, they had no more goal than a hit on the jukebox. Johnny Cash from the very beginning had a goal that he wanted to make music that lifted people's spirits.
Robert Hilburn
#28. Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
Salman Rushdie
#29. I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
Manish Dayal
#30. Yakety Yak. The Coasters. 1958 Spark Records. One minute and fifty seconds of sublime, in-your-face, balls-out nonsense. Everything rock and roll was meant to be.
Tristan Egolf
#31. Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other, living in peace and harmony.
Richie Havens
#32. People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
Bjork
#33. Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.
Debbie Harry
#34. In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.
Rainn Wilson
#35. If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can't say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs.
Marilyn Manson
#36. You can't kill rock and roll without a silver bullet because she's a werewolf.
Anthony Langston
#37. Rock and roll allowed people to lie about themselves, and to be sanctified for the extravagance of their fictions. This
Steve Almond
#39. I'm a rock and roll singer.
Adam Ant
#40. I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.
Taylor Hawkins
#41. You have an hour and a half or two hours - maybe two and a half hours - in a movie, and it has to be a self-contained three-act structure. It's like a rock and roll song. Certain things have to happen for it to be a toe-tapper and get people excited, leaving the theater.
Jon Favreau
#42. As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
David Byrne
#43. I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.
Slash
#44. From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?
Craig Ferguson
#45. I think anything that you put your life's energy into becomes part of your identity. It would be difficult for the Rolling Stones to not play rock and roll anymore, because that's their image of themselves. When you've convinced everybody that that's who you are, that's who you are.
Jim Bridwell
#46. Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.
Billy Joel
#47. You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.
Bob Dylan
#48. When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.
Denis Leary
#49. People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea?
I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture.
Thurston Moore
#50. Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had just started hitting the shores of England.
Joe Cocker
#52. Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.
Bob Seger
#53. I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with.
Kenny Chesney
#54. Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
Elvis Presley
#55. There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything
Bonnie Raitt
#56. If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.
Louis Armstrong
#57. If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.
Mick Fleetwood
#58. Every time you read something about Rolling Stones it always mentions their age and how long can they go on? I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.
Kate Pierson
#59. Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.
Suzi Quatro
#60. I think that it was really rock-and-roll stars, women who were breaking boundaries with their bodies and their voices and their beings and their music. I spent a lot of time at concerts,just watching women rock out. They expressed so much of what I believed could be possible.
Eve Ensler
#61. I love old school rock and roll.
Don Lemon
#62. Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.
Richie Sambora
#63. I know life sometimes can get tough!
And I know life sometimes can be a drag!
But people, we have been given a gift,
we have been given a road
And that road's name is Rock and Roll!
Paul Stanley
#64. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.
Ian Anderson
#65. I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.
David Bowie
#66. Kane is a band I formed with my best friend Steve Carlson. We just got together and started playing guitar. He was playing some old school rock and roll, and we got together and thought, 'Hey, let's take this on the road.'
Christian Kane
#67. I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
Nancy Sinatra
#68. Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
Mac Davis
#69. Well all of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks, get into your kicks. Come back baby, rock and roll never forgets.
Bob Seger
#70. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke - the fact that Madonna is in before Rush and Kiss. Those two bands have influenced so many groups and people other than in metal.
Corey Taylor
#71. In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago.
Jonathan Gold
#72. I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock and roll.
Joan Jett
#73. We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time.
Bobby Keys
#74. I'm going to try to do as many styles as I can. A salsa number, rock and roll, country ... I've talked to a million people about it. Obviously, I'd love Prince to do it. I'm sure he'll produce the whole album for me.
Paul Reubens
#75. My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower.
Jon Stewart
#76. Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.
Paul Stanley
#77. Rock and roll is music," said Vanya.
"Prokofiev is music, Stravinski is music, Tchaikovski and Borodin and Rimski-Korsakov and even Rachmaninov, THEY are music. Rock and roll is smart boys with no respect, YOU are rock and roll.
Orson Scott Card
#78. Decadent self-expression has no place in rock and roll.
Dave Marsh
#79. I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.
Tim Vine
#80. Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.
Conan O'Brien
#81. How 'bout a cheer for all those bad girls?
And all those boys that play that rock and roll?
They love it like you love Jesus,
It does the same thing to their souls.
Tom Petty
#82. Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else.
Ahmet Ertegun
#83. I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.
Bobby Vinton
#84. Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake there shackle.
Gene Simmons
#85. Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you.
Willie Nelson
#86. People hear a powerful female singer in a rock and roll band, and they say, 'Janis Joplin.' I think people just make that comparison because it's easy. But I don't think I sound like her at all.
Brittany Howard
#87. There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.
Elmer Bernstein
#88. Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
Charlie Watts
#89. If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.
Nikki Sixx
#90. Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old,
Chuck Berry
#91. Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.
Huey Lewis
#92. We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.
Zakk Wylde
#93. Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
Peter York
#94. I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#95. For me, it's more about keeping it simple with a rock and roll edge. It's all about accessorising.
Lulu
#96. I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.
Ginger Baker
#97. Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
Ben Folds
#98. The road to rock and roll Heaven is paved by the bleached skulls of guys like me. I had no idea such things were nearly impossible.
Greg Kihn
#99. My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.
Casey Abrams
#100. To use the old jailhouse term and not the modern rock and roll one, a punk's question.
Adrian Barnes
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