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
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.
- John Lennon
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
- John Lennon
If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll.
- Steven Adler
It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.
- Steven Adler
A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.
- Steve Albini
The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.
- David Amram
I'm a rock and roll singer.
- Adam Ant
I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.
- Billie Joe Armstrong
The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.
- Kevin Ayers
I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.
- Ginger Baker
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
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
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
- Keith Richards
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
- Keith Richards
There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz_that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
- Keith Richards
Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
- Keith Richards
Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.
- Ritchie Blackmore
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
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
I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.
- Debby Boone
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
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
I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
- Nick Carter
Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.
- Stephen King
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
I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
- Adam Clayton
I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.
- Clarence Clemons
I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.
- Rosemary Clooney
If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
- Kurt Cobain
I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
- Bruce Cockburn
I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.
- Tre Cool
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
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
So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
- Gavin Degraw
I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.
- Jackie Deshannon
Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.
- Ronnie James Dio
I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.
- Patty Duke
Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
- Ian Dury
He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been in Lou's house in LA with its waterfalls, the pretty girls Lou always had, his car collection out front, and Bennie had looked into his idol's famous face and thought, You're finished. Nostalgia was the end - everyone knew that.
- Jennifer Egan
If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.
- Cass Elliot
Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.
- James Ellroy
Bruce has always been so nice to me, which is crazy, because he's one of my heroes. I'll never forget being at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony the year Bruce and Paul McCartney were inducted. We were at the bar, and Bruce was talking to Paul, and he turned to me and said, 'I can't believe I'm talking to Paul McCartney!' I thought, 'I can't believe I'm talking to Bruce Springsteen, who's talking to Paul McCartney!
- Melissa Etheridge
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
My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
- Abel Ferrara
The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.
- John Fogerty
Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
- Ben Folds
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
- Aretha Franklin
That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
- Ace Frehley
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
Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.
- Neil Gaiman
When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.
- Art Garfunkel
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
- Bill Griffith
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
Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll.
- Bobby Hatfield
The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
- Abbie Hoffman
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
After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.
- Rick James
You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.
- Rick James
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
- Waylon Jennings
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
- Billy Joel
The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
- Elton John
I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.
- Moira Kelly
The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll.
- Chuck Klosterman
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
I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.
- Brenda Lee
To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people.
- Arto Lindsay
People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.
- Steve Marriott
Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
- Malcolm Mclaren
There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.
- Brian Molko
A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.
- Wes Montgomery
What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.
- Michael Moorcock
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
- Robert Morgan
Fascinating... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams of opposingly charged particles accelerated till they're just under the speed of light, and then crashed into each other? Only here alcohol, accentuated secondary sexual characteristics and primitive "rock and roll" beats take the place of velocity.
- Paul Murray
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
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
Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
- Ted Nugent
I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.
- Ted Nugent
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 Obrien
The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.
- Jerry Only
Rock and roll is here to stay.
- Neil Young
Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
- Vance Packard
If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
- Camille Paglia
You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.
- Trey Parker
We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.
- Minnie Pearl
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
I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
- Manuel Puig
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
- Manuel Puig
Easy. They just let us forget. Give us too much to process, fill up every minute, keep us distracted, it's what the Tube is for, and though it kills me to say it, it's what rock and roll is becoming - just another way to claim our attention, so that beautiful certainty we had starts to fade, and after a while they have us convinced all over again that we really are going to die. And they've got us again.
- Thomas Pynchon
Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.
- Suzi Quatro
I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.
- Robert Quine
I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
- Haley Reinhart
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
So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.
- Cliff Richard
I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.
- Chris Robinson
You know, I guess there's enough information out there to support that I'm a crazy, wild dude and rock and roll and this, that and the other. And there's enough information to support that, you know, I'm a single father, that, you know, has been a pretty standup guy in his community and pretty private about that stuff. But it's on both sides.
- Kid Rock
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
- Salman Rushdie
Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.
- Richie Sambora
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
So we got there at 6 a.m. We'd be shooting by 6:45. We wouldn't break for lunch, we'd just pass food around all day. And we would just rock and roll 'til 4, then Matty Libatique, our great cinematographer, would say, "Outta light, guys" - and that was it.
- Joel Schumacher
In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.
- Yahoo Serious
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
My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.
- Slash
And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.
- Slash
I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.
- Grace Slick
These things were in my mind from the first moment I entered the vocal booth. The gratitude I had for rock and roll as it pulled me through a difficult adolescence. The joy I experienced when I danced. The moral power I gleaned in taking responsibility for one's action.-- Patti Smith
- Patti Smith
We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity.
- Patti Smith
Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.
- Emma Thompson
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'
- Pete Townshend
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
- Pete Townshend
We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
- Tanya Tucker
Peace Love Rock and Roll!!!
- Carrie Underwood
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
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
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
Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
- Don Van Vliet
When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.
- Charlie Watts
Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
- Charlie Watts
I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.
- Scott Weiland
I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.
- Max Weinberg
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some heart. The blues blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. The blues went south to north, got electrified and even sanctified. The blues got mixed up with jazz and gospel and rock and roll.
- Cornel West
Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
- Larry Williams
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- Bernie Worrell
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
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
- Peter York
But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.
- James Young
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
- Frank Zappa
- Casey Abrams
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.
- John Lennon
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
- John Lennon
If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll.
- Steven Adler
It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.
- Steven Adler
A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.
- Steve Albini
The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.
- David Amram
I'm a rock and roll singer.
- Adam Ant
I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.
- Billie Joe Armstrong
The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.
- Kevin Ayers
I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.
- Ginger Baker
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
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
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
- Keith Richards
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
- Keith Richards
There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz_that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
- Keith Richards
Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
- Keith Richards
Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.
- Ritchie Blackmore
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
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
I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.
- Debby Boone
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
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
I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
- Nick Carter
Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.
- Stephen King
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
I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
- Adam Clayton
I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.
- Clarence Clemons
I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.
- Rosemary Clooney
If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
- Kurt Cobain
I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
- Bruce Cockburn
I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.
- Tre Cool
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
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
So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
- Gavin Degraw
I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.
- Jackie Deshannon
Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.
- Ronnie James Dio
I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.
- Patty Duke
Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
- Ian Dury
He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been in Lou's house in LA with its waterfalls, the pretty girls Lou always had, his car collection out front, and Bennie had looked into his idol's famous face and thought, You're finished. Nostalgia was the end - everyone knew that.
- Jennifer Egan
If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.
- Cass Elliot
Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.
- James Ellroy
Bruce has always been so nice to me, which is crazy, because he's one of my heroes. I'll never forget being at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony the year Bruce and Paul McCartney were inducted. We were at the bar, and Bruce was talking to Paul, and he turned to me and said, 'I can't believe I'm talking to Paul McCartney!' I thought, 'I can't believe I'm talking to Bruce Springsteen, who's talking to Paul McCartney!
- Melissa Etheridge
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
My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
- Abel Ferrara
The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.
- John Fogerty
Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
- Ben Folds
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
- Aretha Franklin
That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
- Ace Frehley
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
Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.
- Neil Gaiman
When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.
- Art Garfunkel
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
- Bill Griffith
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
Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll.
- Bobby Hatfield
The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
- Abbie Hoffman
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
After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.
- Rick James
You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.
- Rick James
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
- Waylon Jennings
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
- Billy Joel
The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
- Elton John
I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.
- Moira Kelly
The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll.
- Chuck Klosterman
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
I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.
- Brenda Lee
To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people.
- Arto Lindsay
People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.
- Steve Marriott
Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
- Malcolm Mclaren
There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.
- Brian Molko
A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.
- Wes Montgomery
What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.
- Michael Moorcock
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
- Robert Morgan
Fascinating... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams of opposingly charged particles accelerated till they're just under the speed of light, and then crashed into each other? Only here alcohol, accentuated secondary sexual characteristics and primitive "rock and roll" beats take the place of velocity.
- Paul Murray
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
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
Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
- Ted Nugent
I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.
- Ted Nugent
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 Obrien
The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.
- Jerry Only
Rock and roll is here to stay.
- Neil Young
Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
- Vance Packard
If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
- Camille Paglia
You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.
- Trey Parker
We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.
- Minnie Pearl
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
I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
- Manuel Puig
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
- Manuel Puig
Easy. They just let us forget. Give us too much to process, fill up every minute, keep us distracted, it's what the Tube is for, and though it kills me to say it, it's what rock and roll is becoming - just another way to claim our attention, so that beautiful certainty we had starts to fade, and after a while they have us convinced all over again that we really are going to die. And they've got us again.
- Thomas Pynchon
Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.
- Suzi Quatro
I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.
- Robert Quine
I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
- Haley Reinhart
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
So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.
- Cliff Richard
I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.
- Chris Robinson
You know, I guess there's enough information out there to support that I'm a crazy, wild dude and rock and roll and this, that and the other. And there's enough information to support that, you know, I'm a single father, that, you know, has been a pretty standup guy in his community and pretty private about that stuff. But it's on both sides.
- Kid Rock
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
- Salman Rushdie
Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.
- Richie Sambora
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
So we got there at 6 a.m. We'd be shooting by 6:45. We wouldn't break for lunch, we'd just pass food around all day. And we would just rock and roll 'til 4, then Matty Libatique, our great cinematographer, would say, "Outta light, guys" - and that was it.
- Joel Schumacher
In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.
- Yahoo Serious
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
My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.
- Slash
And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.
- Slash
I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.
- Grace Slick
These things were in my mind from the first moment I entered the vocal booth. The gratitude I had for rock and roll as it pulled me through a difficult adolescence. The joy I experienced when I danced. The moral power I gleaned in taking responsibility for one's action.-- Patti Smith
- Patti Smith
We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity.
- Patti Smith
Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.
- Emma Thompson
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'
- Pete Townshend
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
- Pete Townshend
We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
- Tanya Tucker
Peace Love Rock and Roll!!!
- Carrie Underwood
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
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
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
Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
- Don Van Vliet
When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.
- Charlie Watts
Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
- Charlie Watts
I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.
- Scott Weiland
I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.
- Max Weinberg
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some heart. The blues blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. The blues went south to north, got electrified and even sanctified. The blues got mixed up with jazz and gospel and rock and roll.
- Cornel West
Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
- Larry Williams
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- Bernie Worrell
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
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
- Peter York
But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.
- James Young
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
- Frank Zappa
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