Rock And Roll Quotes
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Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe -
I know life sometimes can get tough! And I know life sometimes can be a drag! But people, we have been given a gift, We have been given a road, And that road's name is... Rock and Roll!
Paul Stanley Kiss
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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 Van Halen -
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 -
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 -
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 -
That's the most rock-and-roll story in the world. No one can top it.
Ben Moody Evanescence -
There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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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 like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.
Wes Montgomery -
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 -
Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
Let’s face it. Rock and Roll is bigger than all of us.
Alan Freed -
Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.
George Thorogood
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case.
Elvis Costello
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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.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.
Ginger Baker Cream -
To me, rock and roll is not a perfect science.
Laura Pergolizzi -
I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana