Rock And Roll Quotes
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Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
I don't think there should be a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, period.
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers
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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.
Steve Marriott Small Faces -
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.
Ben Gillies Silverchair -
You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock and roll you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues.
Jack White The White Stripes -
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.
John Graham Mellor The 101ers -
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.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe -
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.
Alex Timbers
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What has Rock and Roll ever done for us? Everything.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac -
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.
John Verity Argent -
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.
Paul Stanley Kiss -
My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
I believe in rock and roll and heavy music in general.
Robert Trujillo Metallica -
Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
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It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that.
Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots -
Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
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.
Billy Joel -
Rock and roll is here to stay.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
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.
Debby Boone -
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.
Grace Slick Starship
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It's Only Rock and Roll.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.
Robin Trower Procol Harum -
I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.
Loudon Wainwright III -
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.
Billy Joel