Top 100 Quotes About Roll
#1. Most managers in the rock n' roll world ... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.
Jon Anderson
#2. I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always loved music. Started out loving to sing to the standards and songs of the early 50s, then that interest shifted to rock and roll, Motown, folk.
Timothy B. Schmit
#3. We have a beautiful program which is audacious and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success.
Pauline Marois
#4. I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.
Jerry Hall
#5. A #GIRLBOSS knows when to throw punches and when to roll with them.
Sophia Amoruso
#6. if you want to enjoy life to the fullest you must roll with the punches
Thabiso Monkoe
#7. Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.
Peter Buck
#8. You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay
Ozzy Osbourne
#9. Rock n' roll is about attitude and rebellion. It's supposed to be fun and spontaneous.
Slash
#10. Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.
Marty Liquori
#11. You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master.
Philip Gerard
#12. Rock n' roll is dirty, and it's bad, and it's either clever or it's not clever.
Nikki Sixx
#13. If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#14. The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice. If people don't show that weekend, you're doomed. TV allows you to percolate a little bit, and it gives you a chance for people to find it.
Bruce Campbell
#15. Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.
John Keats
#16. It's a long way to the top, If you wanna rock n' roll
AC/DC
#17. ... you almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.
Nicholson Baker
#18. When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.
Larry Lujack
#19. I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
La India
#20. Ella -Shifting, I roll to my side to find myself staring into a pair of pale blue eyes... "Your beautiful."
Jayden - "I've been called a lot of things, sweetheart, but beautiful isn't one of them.
Lisa Renee Jones
#21. You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes.
"Not claustrophobic people, Tris.
Veronica Roth
#22. I used to like the foods that come in abstract shapes: chicken nuggets, Fruit Roll-Ups, hot dogs.
Ned Vizzini
#24. My shape reminds me a lot of my grandmother, whom I was really close to. She died when I was 13, and we have a really similar body type, the squat New England woman who can roll out dough and bring in your lawnmower. That's kind of the vibe of my body, and I'm into it.
Lena Dunham
#25. I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.
J. D. Souther
#26. A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that.
Elvis Presley
#27. Ex-convicts prepared the eggs for the White House's Easter Egg Roll. It's nice to see the White House reaching out to former members of Congress.
Jay Leno
#28. If you set a trap for others, you will get caught in it yourself. If you roll a boulder down on others, it will crush you instead.
Anonymous
#29. He slung off his backpack. He'd managed to grab a lot of supplies at the Napa Bargain Mart: a portable GPS, duct tape, lighter, superglue, water bottle, camping roll, a Comfy Panda Pillow Pet (as seen on TV), and a Swiss army knife - pretty much every tool a modern demigod could want.
Rick Riordan
#30. Many foam rollers are too large and too hard to navigate around bony prominences, joints, or delicate tissue junctions into which the grippy, pliable Roll Model Balls can easily navigate.
Jill Miller
#31. Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.
Tony Visconti
#32. I had no schedule, no plan for today or the next, or the week after. Everything in my life just seemed to kind of roll together, collect speed and go thundering downhill.
Shannon Olson
#33. So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again.
Daniel Defoe
#34. I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.
Valerie June
#35. Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.
Steven Tyler
#36. It means rock'n'roll in the sack. It means sex: the lyrics, the beat of it, the thunderous feeling through your body. Before the word groupie even existed I knew that I wanted to share myself with someone who created that music and turned me on in every kind of way.
Pamela Des Barres
#37. I think Paul would roll over in his grave if he knew we were turning his letters into torah. - F. F. BRUCE
Rachel Held Evans
#38. Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual provocation; the hero who makes his wife roll her eyes is a perambulating phallus.
H.L. Mencken
#39. Rock 'n' roll ... but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.
Angie Everhart
#40. I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.
Werner Herzog
#41. I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.
Rick Moranis
#42. There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
Taylor Hanson
#43. Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.
Neil Young
#44. Just as a car parked on a hill will naturally roll backward when shifted into neutral, we will naturally go the wrong way if we shift our Christian lives into neutral and stop seeking to learn and grow as believers.
Greg Laurie
#45. Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.
Jenny Han
#46. If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
Abbie Hoffman
#47. I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll off of his back after momentarily bristling.
Robert Draper
#48. So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
Gavin DeGraw
#49. Opportunity can't reward you with its many gifts if you fail to recognize it and act on it. What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made from the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. Let the good times roll!
Ernie J Zelinski
#50. Oh, yes. I've known kisses so narcotic they made my eyes roll back in my head. For a few weeks one winter I walked around feeling like I had a miniature sun in my heart.
Tim Kreider
#51. I looked down at my stomach. I grabbed at it, seeing how much fat I could lift up in a roll.
"Don't worry," you said, one eye open again like a crocodile watching me. "You're beautiful." You tipped your head back. "Beautiful," you murmured. "Perfect.
Lucy Christopher
#52. My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.
Slash
#53. Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.
Gary Cherone
#54. Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun.
Steven Van Zandt
#55. Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.
Kirk Hammett
#56. When I look at you I can see my future roll out in one long laugh, like a red carpet of fun and intelligence and hope. A ripple of joy that stretches into the horizon until it disappears. Not because it ceases to exist, but because it's infinite.
Julia Kent
#57. I...wanna party every night and rock n roll all day
Kiss
#58. And-he was ashamed to admit
he had been known to carry off the occasional roll of duct tape. That stuff could be used for everything.
Sharon Ashwood
#59. Henry James would probably roll over in his grave if he knew he was in any way responsible for this book.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#60. How can you have a rock n' roll circus without a midget?
Nikki Sixx
#61. I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.
Adam Clayton
#62. Like gangsters yelling out roll call before they slaughtered a group of weeping traitors.
James Dashner
#63. Kane couldn't remember the last time he'd had a real conversation with a female. His chats with women consisted of sentences like "Do you like that, babe?" or "Roll over, I want to screw you from behind.
Elle Kennedy
#64. God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.
Little Richard
#65. I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing ... We're f - -ing movie stars.
Dave Grohl
#66. I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.
Don Henley
#67. I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.
Michiel Huisman
#68. Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
Vance Packard
#69. I'm Scottish. My idea of foreplay is roll over, Margaret.
Andrea Speed
#70. It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)
Mitch Miller
#71. I thought at last that it was time to roll up the crumpled skin of the day, with its arguments and its impressions and its anger and its laughter, and cast it into the hedge.
Virginia Woolf
#72. Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I,
To mourn, and murmur and repine,
To see the wicked placed on high,
In pride and robes of honor shine.
But oh, their end, their dreadful end,
Thy sanctuary taught me so,
On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand,
And fiery billows roll below.
Isaac Watts
#73. I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.
Patti Smith
#74. You know it's the 21st Century when someone TEXTS you from the washroom to ask you to bring them a roll of toilet paper.
Tanya Masse
#75. The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock n' roll from a medium that was about cars and girls and gave it context, interesting chord changes and true musicianship.
Bob Spitz
#76. Thinking about it like that made it more bearable, that we go back to God when we've had our turn, that some of us roll the dice less than we'd like, but that we're the ones who are rolling them.
Robyn Schneider
#77. I worked with Dionne Warwick, did shows with Bette Midler, and then I did the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Springsteen at the Garden. It was all important stuff because you want people to know you can work, you can sing, and you can still look good!
Darlene Love
#78. If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"
Bear Bryant
#79. It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.
William Sloane Coffin
#80. Fraternities aren't cool at all, not in the real, rock-and-roll sense, the one I now knew. They have a reputation of housing douchebags that pay for friends and try to seem better than everyone else, and actually smart, cool people shouldn't want to be a part of anything like that.
A.D. Aliwat
#81. There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.
Joseph O'Neill
#82. I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything.
Ezra Furman
#83. The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered
about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were
still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the
horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me
into bed.
William Styron
#84. I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom.
Ozzy Osbourne
#85. Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
Yoko Ono
#86. Who's Myrnin?"
Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss."
"You realize no part of that sentence made sense, right?
Rachel Caine
#87. When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.
Craig Finn
#88. I unrolled my window to get away from the cigarette smog a little and watched a different world roll by.
Stephen King
#89. The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.
Bruce Springsteen
#90. I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.
Boz Scaggs
#91. I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
Kara Walker
#92. When the chips are down, you are given
the chance to find the strength you never knew you had and put it toward the greater good. Or go over to the dark side. You know, if that's how you roll.
Jessica Lave
#93. The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.
John Updike
#94. I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.
Graham Nash
#95. I still believe in rock and roll, it pays my bills.
Jimmy Buffett
#96. Rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.
Lester Bangs
#97. Sunday is the only day you have to push like a handcart,' Thomas wrote in The Book Of Everything. ' The other days roll down the bridge by themselves.
Guus Kuijer
#98. There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright.
Ray Davies
#99. I feel like I have lost all control. I am going to roll with it.
Amanda Mosher
#100. I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.
Ritchie Blackmore
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