Rock N Roll famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
-- Ace Frehley -
I don't know if it's possible to live the rock'n'roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
-- Adam Levine -
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.
-- Adrian Mitchell -
Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive.
-- Alex Turner -
Rock 'n' roll but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.
-- Angie Everhart -
I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.
-- Ben Harper -
Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?
-- Bon Scott -
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-- Bono -
I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in
-- Brendan Fraser -
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.
-- Bryan Ferry -
If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock 'n' roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.
-- Buddy Holly -
You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
-- Carlos Santana -
I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
-- Dan Fogelberg -
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
-- Dave Grohl -
We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.
-- David Lee Roth -
When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.
-- David Lee Roth -
I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.
-- Dick Clark -
The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
-- Fiona Apple -
It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70...
-- Freddie Mercury -
Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.
-- Gary Cherone -
We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
-- Gary Kemp -
Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.
-- Gene Simmons -
Rock 'n' roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.
-- GG Allin -
Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
-- Grace Jones -
If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.
-- Grace Slick -
A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
-- Ian Anderson -
Heavy metal drives me bonkers, it makes me want to vomit, heavy metal really is a pile of puke.
-- Ian Gillan -
One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue.
-- James Hetfield -
I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.
-- Janelle Monae -
I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.
-- Jerry Hall -
Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.
-- Jim DeRogatis -
Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.
-- Joe Eszterhas -
There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had ***** in me
-- 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 -
Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.
-- Joey Ramone -
I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.
-- Johnny Cash -
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-- Johnny Depp -
Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.
-- Johnny Ramone -
I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll
-- Johnny Winter -
Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.
-- Johnny Winter -
I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.
-- Keith Moon -
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 -
To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.
-- Kelly Osbourne -
If you're a gay person I'd rather not be stuck in a lift with you.
-- Kerry King -
If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are.
-- Lemmy Kilmister -
Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.
-- Lester Bangs -
Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.
-- Lester Bangs -
The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.
-- Lester Bangs -
To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.
-- Little Richard -
I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.
-- Little Richard -
Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.
-- Marilyn Manson -
The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.
-- Matt Groening -
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
-- Neil Young -
These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.
-- Nick Lowe -
To all who pass that they may see, Rock 'N' Roll was a part of me.
-- Nik Cohn -
Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should see a shrink. Then she started crying and I started laughing.
-- Nikki Sixx -
We get paid in flesh. Our audiences are ***** and whores, each and every one.
-- Nikki Sixx -
I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.
-- Nina Blackwood -
Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes.
-- Noel Gallagher -
Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.
-- Noel Gallagher -
I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.
-- Paul Westerberg -
Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.
-- Pete Best -
I'm down to a bottle of wine a day, but my hands still shake a bit.
-- Pete Way -
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
-- Phil Knight -
The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.
-- Robert Plant -
I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
-- Robert Smith -
Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.
-- Robert Wyatt -
I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.
-- Shelby Lynne -
I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.
-- Steven Van Zandt -
Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
-- Stevie Wonder -
Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
-- Sting -
There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.
-- Tina Turner -
If it weren't for rock'n'roll, I wouldn't be a designer
-- Tommy Hilfiger -
The only negative thing about murder is that when you kills someone they can no longer suffer
-- Varg Vikernes -
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians.
-- Walter Becker
