Best Rock And Roll Quotations
370 Rock And Roll quotes by 260 unique authors
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No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.
— Nicholas Meyer
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I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the…
— Debby Boone
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New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the…
— Huey Lewis
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The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can…
— Steven Adler
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A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they…
— Wes Montgomery
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Berry's On TopĀ is probably my favorite record of all time; it defines rock and roll. A lot of people have done Chuck Berry songs, but…
— Joe Perry
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really…
— Pete Townshend
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I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and…
— Edward Furlong
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You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job…
— Bruce Springsteen
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."
— Billy Joel
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In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while…
— Rainn Wilson
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Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the…
— Pete Townshend
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I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and…
— Paul Stanley
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It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they…
— Angus Young
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In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago, in…
— Jonathan Gold
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Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its…
— Cub Koda
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As soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick,…
— Slash
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People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in…
— John Darnielle
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You've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive…
— Bruce Springsteen
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I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
— Eddie Van Halen
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
— Billy Joel
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I think anything that you put your life's energy into becomes part of your identity. It would be difficult for the Rolling Stones to not…
— Jim Bridwell
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Rock and roll is commitment. Rock and roll is passion and spirit.
— Mick Fleetwood
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Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.
— The Edge
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