What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are… — Etta James Copy Share Image
If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good. — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Some say it's too country, some say it's too rock n' roll. But it's just good music if you can feel it… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks. — Joe Cocker Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age.… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came… — Frankie Valli Copy Share Image
They thought we were just basically keeping ourselves underground on purpose. And it was just strange for people to approach music that… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm not giving people in the audience enough credit for actually thinking about what they're singing, but it's awesome when a… — Sarah Harmer Copy Share Image
We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Who's going to save rock 'n' roll? It's so silly. Remember like in '86 or '87 and synthesizers were going to take… — Matthew Caws Copy Share Image
Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings,… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock n' roll to me when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band. — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant. — David Johansen Copy Share Image
Playing live is a lot of fun. You get one shot, ... But at the end of the day, it's all rock… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star. — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with… — Cher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n'… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock n' roll from a medium that was about cars and girls and gave it… — Bob Spitz Copy Share Image
Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan. — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
Being a female hard rocker and guitar player, I felt the need to put out a memoir. Almost like a rock 'n'… — Lita Ford Copy Share Image
All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to… — Adam Lambert Copy Share Image
My son Jack just got out of rehab, he's 17 years old and he got hooked on Oxycontin and I'm just a… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
I've never stuck around long enough to know if anyone would miss me. That's rock 'n' roll, though. Here today, gone tomorrow. — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it. — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from? — Carrie Snodgress Copy Share Image
Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going. — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
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