Rock And Roll Quotes
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It wasn't in a school band. I didn't manage to hook up with anybody at school. Pretty soon after I started playing, I stopped going to school. It took quite a while for my parents to find out. I didn't need to go to school anymore because I was going to be this big rock and roll star.
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Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.
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Nobody did rock ‘n’ roll before me in France.
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Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.
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People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.
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What's holding me up is I'm confused about the nature of the music. Because the modern music doesn't reach me. I mean to say the sound of the modern electric production. A lot of sequencers... synths. That's what people are buying. Because that doesn't reach me, it throws me back to like 1948, but I don't want to be there. Back there, I'm talking about blues records... The roots of rock'n'roll is rhythm and blues and that's like really where I'm at, where I was always at.
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I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.
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The bands we admired we're groups that made great album after great album. That's what groups like Led Zeppelin did. I'm certainly not comparing us to them in any way -- but they were an influence. You have to learn from your influences, and I think we have. We want to be doing this ten years from now -- maybe even 20 years from now. We know how important every album is. We're not just a bunch of kids anymore -- we're a rock and roll band that people expect some great things from.
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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.
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I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
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I believe in rock and roll and heavy music in general.
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I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.
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If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.
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My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die.
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The whole idea of rock and roll lifestyle is a cartoon. It's a caricature. And at times, it's made up of people emulating others; a few who actually live that lifestyle and many who claim to live that lifestyle.
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Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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 hall and my dad isn't.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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What has Rock and Roll ever done for us? Everything.
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It's Only Rock and Roll.
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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 Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.
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I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.
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You can't go home with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't sleep with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't get hugged by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and you don't have children with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I want what everybody else wants: to love and to be loved, and to have a family. Being in love has always been the most important thing in my life.
