Rock And Roll Life Quotes

#1. People don't realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it's hundreds of bottles of champagne flowing and private jets and money. But there's a lot of time when you're traveling - time to think, time to be lonely. Sometimes it gets to you.

Lenny Kravitz

#2. The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

Bruce Springsteen

#3. Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

Roberta Flack

#4. Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

Gerard Way

#5. Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

Sinead O'Connor

#6. I need more dreams and less life
I need that dark in a little more light

Fall Out Boy

#7. 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

#8. I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.

Joan Jett

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. No one wants to die or even plans to die, at least not when you are young and living life on top of everything, stepping on gold, running the miles with hot chicks on tow, but even if I wasn't a rock star, and just a normal civilian, I still wouldn't plan to die young. Death is so boring.

Sofea Shah

#13. But as we all know, rock 'n' roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever.

Thomas Pynchon

#14. Life will never be perfect, so we must learn how to make the imperfections work for us.

LinDee Rochelle

#15. ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We're a life cult. Rock 'n' roll is a life force, and it's joy as an act of defiance.

Bono

#16. Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life.

Kurt Cobain

#17. If you want to be all like smart and adult about this shit then do the right thing. But if you want to do something fun and take a chance, then screw what anyone else thinks. Rock and roll, man!

Karina Halle

#18. What are you gonna fill your life up with when you don't have that ultimate satisfaction or peace in your life? You try to fill it up with wealth, pleasure, honor, power, sex, drugs and Rock and Roll to try to feel good.

Dion DiMucci

#19. Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything.

Elton John

#20. I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.

Connie Britton

#21. We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band.

Billy Corgan

#22. You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

Joni Mitchell

#23. When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

Ray Davies

#24. I consider myself a modern-day dad, where I still got rock'n'roll in me, but yet I take being a parent and relationships very seriously in life. I'm tired of the image of the father as a fat, beer-chugging, stupid guy. That image has to change. I'm changing it, baby, one city at a time.

Jim Breuer

#25. I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

Patti Smith

#26. I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

Kurt Cobain

#27. I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

Little Richard

#28. Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter.

Steven Adler

#29. Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

Larry Williams

#30. The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ. The two are melded together in ways both unpredictable and unsure.

Scott Stapp

#31. You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very essential.

The Edge

#32. Because some things in life just hurt so much that you need to feel physical pain to start to heal from it.

Kristen Hope Mazzola

#33. This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

Keith Richards

#34. The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.

Courtney Love

#35. Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.

Stephen King

#36. Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

Paul Simon

#37. I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts ... they are anthems and they lift up your life.

Rodney Atkins

#38. 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

#39. You can tell by the clothes Viki wears that music comes first in her life.

Randolph Randy Camp

#40. If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it.

Tobin Bell

#41. Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

The Edge

#42. I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'

Natalie Cole

#43. With beat of systole and of diastole One grand great life throbs through earth's giant heart, And mighty waves of single Being roll From nerveless germ to man, for we are part Of every rock and bird and beast and hill, One with the things that prey on us, and one with what we kill. From

Oscar Wilde

#44. History was a way to live extra lives, to cheat the limits of flesh and blood, to roll the rock back from the tomb and free the resurrected dead.

Tony Hendra

#45. What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.

Ezra Furman

#46. What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

Joey Ramone

#47. It's really hard to make records and concentrate and have a free mind, because I have this whole other life. If you don't have kids it's a whole other thing. I think you can be fifty and still have a rock and roll lifestyle; you can still perpetuate that.

Pat Benatar

#48. The road is a fun place, and it's a great place to get out there and explore the country. But as far as the road life with the 'rock n' roll temptations,' there's not much of that with me.

Scotty McCreery

#49. I've always been a dreamer, have always believed
in the power of love and art and loud, life-affirming rock and roll, but, for the first time,
I'm starting to have doubts. Can a dream even exist in reality? Or does it turn to stone
the second it leaves your mind?

Pete Wentz