Rock N Roll Quotes

• 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.

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • Music
  • Progression
  • Vogue

• Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Conscious
  • Hip Hop
  • Fallback

• Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Fan
  • Rock N Roll
  • Touched

• Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.

  

  Keith Moon The Who
  • Play
  • Rock N Roll
  • Mandolin

• 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.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Great
  • Band
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Music
  • Rock N Roll
  • Bass Player

• Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • People
  • Dangerous
  • Piss Off

• 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.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Great
  • Different
  • She

• 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.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Musicians

• 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.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Oasis

• Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.

  

  Roger McGuinn The Byrds
  • Guitar
  • Rock N Roll
  • Hall of Fame

• You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Kill
  • Here
  • Stay

• 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.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Sex

• 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.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • History
  • Together
  • Band

• Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Sexuality
  • Rock N Roll

• 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.

  

  Andy Fairweather Low Amen Corner
  • Money
  • Car
  • Vanity

• 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.

  

  Leeroy Thornhill The Prodigy
  • Music
  • Rock N Roll
  • Guitars

• 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.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Jazz
  • Africa
  • Rhythms

• I was pissed off about a lot of things...so much shitty rock ’n’ roll that angered me, and Pussy Galore was kicking against that. With the Blues Explosion, there was some of that, but now I was into celebrating it.

  

  John Spencer No Doubt
  • Rock N Roll
  • Kicking
  • Celebrating

• 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.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Music
  • Forms
  • Fertile

• Rock 'n' roll and playing live is very addictive. But you have to really be careful, because you don't want to do it all the time. It's like when you are young and you think if you are not having sex you're wasting your time. But as you get older you realise everything has its place. It's the same thing with performing.... Performing is a great thing to do but you don't want to have to be doing it every night.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Great
  • Live

• Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.

  

  Suzi Quatro
  • Music
  • Rock N Roll
  • Puberty

• Rock n roll is like a circus today.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Today
  • Rock N Roll
  • Circus

• Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Freedom
  • Rock
  • Rock N Roll

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