Rock Quotes
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Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote a lot of stuff for Phil Spector... we had done all rock and roll and rhythm and blues. I mean, we liked ballads and I suppose we did them OK, but that wasn't where we were emotionally and musically coming from.
Robert Lee Hatfield
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My true belief about Rock 'n' Roll--and there have been a lot of phrases attributed to me over the years--is this: I believe this kind of music is demonic. ... A lot of the beats in music today are taken from voodoo, from the voodoo drums. If you study music in rhythms, like I have, you'll see that is true. I believe that kind of music is driving people from Christ. It is contagious
Little Richard
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
Ace Frehley
Kiss
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I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
Larry the Cable Guy
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
Ian Williams
Battles
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
Edgar Winter
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.
Matthew Stewart
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Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.
Jimmy Chamberlin
The Smashing Pumpkins
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
Sam Phillips
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
Adam Ant
Adam and the Ants
