If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65. — Robin Trower Copy Share Image
Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating. — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
“America’s two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and we’ve all heard plenty of both in our time.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
“The road to rock and roll Heaven is paved by the bleached skulls of guys like me. I had no idea such… — Greg Kihn Copy Share Image
Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll. — John Cale Copy Share Image
You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and… — Pamela Des Barres Copy Share Image
Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own… — Ronnie James Dio Copy Share Image
I'm a street player, and all of my influences come from bands that I was listening to at the time when I… — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and… — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
“Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You are my Marilyn. You are my lake full of fishes. You are my sky set, my 'Hollywood in Miniature,' my pink… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
My mother grew up strong. She was a charismatic leader among her peers, staging plays, organizing projects, raising money for charity; she… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats.… — Chris Robinson Copy Share Image
It kills me to see people think that, show business is sex, drugs and rock and roll. And I have what you… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
“Easy. They just let us forget. Give us too much to process, fill up every minute, keep us distracted, it's what the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“During World War II, rationing in Russia had made vinyl prohibitively expensive, and cheap X-ray film became the bootleg music industry’s substitute.… — Donnie Eichar Copy Share Image
When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
“Rocket Fever Grips Nation's Teenagers' cheers on enthusiastic newsreel, reflecting the nation's sudden reversal in attitude following the successful launch of Explorer-I… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
[Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book,… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“When you look at me, tease my desire with a mere gaze, it shreds the edges of my soul…” — Yvonne Nicolas Copy Share Image
I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone. — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Rock and roll is not just music, it is a way of life, it has its own spirit. — Anupam Roy Copy Share Image
In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
![“I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really down periods in my life, debauched beyond belief, not knowing what the hell I'm gonna do with my life, [Rolling Stones'] "Street Fighting Man" or something like that would…” quote by Creed Bratton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7fa/creed-bratton-15532_belief_i-love-it-music-i-always-have-loved-it-t_740489.jpg)
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