Rock And Roll famous quotes
05-13-2025
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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 -
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 -
Let's face it. Rock and Roll is bigger than all of us
-- Alan Freed -
If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you.
-- Alice Cooper -
The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
-- Amanda Palmer -
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 -
You can't kill rock and roll without a silver bullet because she's a werewolf.
-- Anthony Langston -
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 -
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
-- Bernie Worrell -
Violence existed before our music was even suggested.
-- Big Pun -
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
-- Bill Griffith -
When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.
-- Bill Haley -
If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for.
-- Billy Bob Thornton -
Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
-- Billy Corgan -
Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
-- Billy Corgan -
Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."
-- Billy Joel -
Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.
-- Billy Joel -
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
-- Billy Joel -
I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
-- Billy Joel -
I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
-- Billy Joel -
The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?
-- Billy Joel -
The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.
-- Bob Dylan -
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 -
One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.
-- Bob Dylan -
Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide.
-- Bob Dylan -
Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
-- Bob Geldof -
Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
-- Bob Seger -
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 -
I bought me a guitar about a year ago, learned how to play in a day or so.
-- Bobby Bare -
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 -
I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.
-- Bon Scott -
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything
-- Bonnie Raitt -
I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.
-- Bootsy Collins -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.
-- Bryan Adams -
I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.
-- Bryan Adams -
I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
-- Caleb Landry Jones -
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 -
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 roll has probably given more than it's taken.
-- Charlie Watts -
It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
-- Chuck Berry -
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old,
-- Chuck Berry -
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
-- Chuck Berry -
So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.
-- Cliff Richard -
Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.
-- Conor Oberst -
Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.
-- Cub Koda -
As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well.
-- Dan Fogelberg -
Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there.
-- Dave Grohl -
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 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 -
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.
-- David Carson -
I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.
-- David Cassidy -
Where would rock and roll be without feedback?
-- David Gilmour -
I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.
-- David Lynch -
Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.
-- Debbie Harry -
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 -
Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away.
-- Dobie Gray -
Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.
-- Don Felder -
A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.
-- Don McLean -
Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
-- Don Van Vliet -
I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
-- Eddie Van Halen -
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
-- Eddie Van Halen -
I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.
-- Edgar Winter -
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 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 -
Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.
-- Fats Domino -
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
-- Frank Zappa -
So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll
-- Gavin DeGraw -
My body is the rock and roll temple and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people whether they like it or not
-- GG Allin -
I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.
-- Grace Slick -
I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.
-- Grace Slick -
I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio.
-- Greil Marcus -
I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
-- Haley Reinhart -
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is all my brain and body need. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is very good indeed.
-- Ian Dury -
Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.
-- Jackson Browne -
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 -
If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-and I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: 'Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.' Whoooooo! It's life. That's what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
-- Janis Joplin -
I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.
-- Jason Aldean -
Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
-- Jerry Garcia -
Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong, so I'll have to say I love you in a song.
-- Jim Croce -
I still believe in rock and roll, it pays my bills.
-- Jimmy Buffett -
I've never believed in so much as I do the BVB Army. Rock and Roll is my religion. And Rock and Roll is back. I love all of you outcast.
-- Jinxx -
Berry's On Top is probably my favorite record of all time; it defines rock and roll. A lot of people have done Chuck Berry songs, but to get that feel is really hard. It's the rock and roll thing-the push-pull and the rhythm of it.
-- Joe Perry -
Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.
-- Joe Perry -
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 -
We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.
-- John Anderson -
Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.
-- John Cale -
People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.
-- John Darnielle -
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
-- John Lennon
