Rock N Roll Quotes
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Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.
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Lemmy is, I think, for anybody in the world of rock n' roll - you don't have to be a bass player - he is a pioneer, and he was true to his music and also the lover of a lot of different styles of music.
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You want a showman, go see rock n roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors.
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When I first started seeing (the show) come together, I was blown away. It is unbelievable. And to see Vince singing, and behind him girls hanging by chains, and Harleys on the stage and the pyrotechnics going it's like, this is what I want to see in rock 'n' roll.
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I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.
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You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.
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You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay.
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You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.
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Rock n roll is like a circus today.
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Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes.
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When I see footage of Guns N' Roses, I see that fu**ing hunger and attitude. You could not f**k with those five guys. It was just raw. It was this lean, hungry thing on its way up. It was as sincere as any rock 'n' roll that I've ever heard, and I'm proud of that.
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How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock 'n' roll! They love it like you love Jesus.
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Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
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They wrote themselves out of the band history, as far as I'm concerned. They should have a little bit of honor. This is supposed to be rock 'n' roll. This is supposed to be friendly. This is like going through the trenches together.
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Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.
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Rock 'n roll was born in the South. It's like saying rock-rock.
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Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.
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For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band.
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If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.
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You think of rock ‘n’ roll and you think of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, You think of tons of strippers and mounds of cocaine and people destroying hotel rooms and stuff like that. But none of that happens with us. At least not yet, We’ve destroyed dressing rooms…but it was with fruit.
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The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll.
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I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.
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Rock’n’roll is vanity and I have bucketloads of that. What I don’t have much of these days is the money for a fancy car.
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When the music evolved away from the more typically dance-based, keyboard-heavy elements, into what you could call more rock 'n' roll, with guitars and hints of verses and choruses, it opened things up to the band on a totally new level. In many ways, 'Firestarter' represents that turning point, with the full vocal track especially. Having said that, it was hardly traditional, it's not exactly in the conventional pop format, not by a long way. Liam's stuff is still very twisted, even when he dabbles with more accepted forms.
