Rock And Roll Quotes

• 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
  • Fans
  • Rock And Roll
  • Hall of Fame

• Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Rock And Roll
  • Burn
  • Jack Daniels

• There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Think
  • Smile
  • Dial

• 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.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Lifestyle
  • Rock And Roll
  • Cartoon

• 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
  • People
  • Concerned
  • Rock And Roll

• 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
  • School
  • Rock
  • Bands

• 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
  • Fans
  • Rock And Roll
  • Riffs

• Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.

  

  George Thorogood
  • Rock And Roll
  • Passes
  • Sleeps

• Rock and roll is here to stay.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Rock
  • Here
  • Stay

• Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Soul
  • Rock And Roll
  • Dose

• We The Replacements never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Money
  • Economics
  • Rock And Roll

• The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in...The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Idea
  • Talents
  • Mentality

• Let’s face it. Rock and Roll is bigger than all of us.

  

  Alan Freed
  • Bigger
  • Rock And Roll
  • Face It

• For a long time I wasn't listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause me to get sweaty. It would bring back memories I didn't want to know about, or I would get that feeling that I'm not alive 'cause I'm not making it. And if it was good, I hated it 'cause I wasn't doing it. And if it was bad, I was furious 'cause I could've done it better.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Music
  • Stuff
  • Radio

• Motley is a great band; they're a legendary band. They're probably going to go into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at some point.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Band
  • Rock And Roll
  • Hall of Fame

• My mother was the one who totally got behind me as far as, do things and ask questions later. My father would say, "I don't care how dirty you are up there, just be funny." Because they knew me offstage. They knew I was a good guy. They knew my whole plan of becoming the most exciting comedian, visually, ever. A real rock-and-roll stand-up comic.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Funny
  • Comedian
  • My Mother

• You listen to a Metallica song, and you listen to the drums, and they're not necessarily swinging, but the arrangements are different. Why is that? Because it's more in tune with jazz arrangements. It's very different. It's not a traditional rock and roll production, in terms of the drums.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Jazz
  • Drums
  • Metallica

• I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Knowing
  • Comfort
  • Rock And Roll

• Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Show
  • Rock And Roll

• I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

  

  Ginger Baker Cream
  • Jazz
  • Rocks
  • Rock And Roll

• I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music.

  

  Hamid Drake
  • Music
  • Jazz
  • Blues

• It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.

  

  Steven Adler
  • Science
  • Only
  • Rock And Roll

• When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Revolution
  • Situation

• I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

  

  Tré Cool Green Day
  • Planet
  • Rock And Roll
  • Drummer

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