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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We saw so many phenomenal Rock 'n Roll bands that were not getting signed. We really needed to start looking outside the box.
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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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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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Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.
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Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.
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Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.
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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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Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.
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Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
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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.
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Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.
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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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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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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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Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified.
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New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.
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You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay.
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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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A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.
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We want to thank (the service members) the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll.
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Playing live is a lot of fun. You get one shot, ... But at the end of the day, it's all rock 'n' roll.
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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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Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.
