Rock and roll Quotes · Page 8

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

— Paul McCartney

Rock and roll is not just music, it is a way of life, it has its own spirit.

— Anupam Roy

Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.

— Willie Nelson

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

— Anonymous

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

— Yvonne Nicolas

I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.

— Leonard Cohen

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

— Patti Smith

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

— Charlie Watts

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

— Graham Nash

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

Wrestling has a tremendous entrance plan. You come in, and it's, 'Boy, here you are. It's rock and roll; it's wonderful.' It's…

— Roddy Piper

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

— Abbie Hoffman

I was driving home and thinking about what rock and roll should be about. 'Adventure and Trouble!' I thought. I sang the…

— Paul Gilbert

There's something to say about inspiration - when it comes into your life...the feeling is insatiable

— Ann Marie Frohoff

I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

— Debbie Harry

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from…

— King Tuff

Detroit has always been a rock and roll audience for me and picked up on me and my performances long before a…

— Peter Frampton

Sandy Bullock cast me in my first movie, 'All About Steve,' and I think I weighed 176, so that's just how I…

— Katy Mixon

When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud…

— John Lennon

Rock 'n' roll guitar came from blues guitar. It was the blues guys who first turned the amp up and started whacking…

— Steve Miller

“If I've got a Dad, and his name is Wormwood Rot, and he's in some heavy metal rock band called Grave Dirt…

— Rusty Fischer

It's something I've always been passionate about - which is the power of rock and roll itself. I'm a walking example of…

— Ed Kowalczyk

Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the…

— Dan Bejar

My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've…

— Bruno Mars

I myself am a product of the 60s; I centered my life around sex, drugs and rock and roll until I hit…

— Phil Robertson

When writing I just go with the song. I go with the song and try to tell the story. So the story…

— Don McLean

“You know what punk is? a bunch of no-talent guys who really, really want to be in a band. Nobody reads music,…

— Gordon Korman

“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

[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

When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the…

— Julius Nyerere

Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book,…

— Gregory Orr

In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.

— John Cameron Mitchell

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.

— Huey Lewis

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

— Billy Joel

Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.

— Robbie Robertson

I want to rock and roll all night and party every day.

— KISS

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

— Keith Richards

If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.

— Robin Trower

Im too experienced to be taken for a stroll.,,too experienced for someone to rock and roll,

— Barrington Levy