Rock and roll Quotes · Page 6

Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.

— Jimmy Buffett

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

— Suzi Quatro

I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.

— Billy Joel

I believe that rock and roll can really make a huge impact on people's lives.

— Ed Kowalczyk

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

— Grace Slick

Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.

— George Thorogood

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

— Chuck Berry

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

— Paul Simon

Ah, it's awesome learning about theater, but it's a completely different musical landscape from rock and roll.

— Charlotte Caffey

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

— Joni Mitchell

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll…

— John Oates

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always…

— Brenda Lee

“When you look at me, tease my desire with a mere gaze, it shreds the edges of my soul… ~ Ripp Collins”

— Yvonne Nicolas

Hip-hop belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's one of the most radical, revolutionary and reactionary music there is.

— Steve Miller

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as…

— Ted Nugent

The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him,…

— Waylon Jennings

When parents want you to do really well academically, they want to avoid you getting into anything that would distract you -…

— Jenova Chen

Presley brought an excitement to singing, in part because rock and roll was greeted as his invention, but for other reasons not…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I came up with my natural logo and ya know, just dealing with Nike I was like can y'all put my logo…

— Rasheed Wallace

I think anything that you put your life's energy into becomes part of your identity. It would be difficult for the Rolling…

— Jim Bridwell

I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan…

— Penn Jillette

Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an…

— Kirk Hammett

Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into…

— Steven Adler

I like rock and roll t-shirts, tight jeans, and sneakers or boots. Really just laid back, sort of rock and roll. I'm…

— Orianthi

“We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense…

— Patti Smith

This is a record I ended up having to make to get on to the next stage of my life. What I…

— Luke Haines

“I get sentimental over the music of the '90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I'm concerned, the…

— Rob Sheffield

“[H]e asked Renee, “What does rock and roll have today that it didn’t have in the sixties?” Renee said, “Tits,” which in…

— Rob Sheffield

There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in…

— David St. John

“Fascinating ... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams…

— Paul Murray

“Page-one news as it occurred, the story of the comics controversy is a largely forgotten chapter in the history of the culture…

— David Hajdu

“I think about cutting my hair. How nice it would be to wash it, run a quick comb through it, and presto!…

— Audrey Niffenegger

Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.

— Kim Mitchell

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

— Neil Gaiman

We are not the guardian angels of anybody. We only play authentic, nasty rock and roll.

— Duff McKagan

Some days I pray to the God of sex and drums and rock and roll.

— Meat Loaf

Where would rock and roll be without feedback?

— David Gilmour

What has Rock and Roll ever done for us? Everything.

— Stevie Nicks

I want to rock till I drop. I love rock and roll music. It keeps you young.

— Dion DiMucci

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

— Lou Reed