It's the same at a rock-and-roll concert. You have an opening number with a strong entrance; then you go through a lot… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
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… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage.… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so… — Adam Rich Copy Share Image
I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down.… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“It was to be the longest flight I had ever made in my young life and one of the most interesting. Having… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might… — Slash Copy Share Image
The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band… — Steven Adler Copy Share Image
I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
Detroit has always been a rock and roll audience for me and picked up on me and my performances long before a… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician,… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
It's basically against the whole idea of what always made rock&roll music interesting to me. I thought it was an unassailable outlet… — Keith Richards 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
