Rock N Roll Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Bands
  • Rock N Roll
  • Showman

• We saw so many phenomenal Rock 'n Roll bands that were not getting signed. We really needed to start looking outside the box.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Rock
  • Start
  • Bands

• 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

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

  

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

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

  

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

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Together
  • History
  • Band

• 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

• Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Sexuality
  • Rock N Roll

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  

  Hugh Anthony Cregg III Clover
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• 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

• A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.

  

  John William Cummings Ramones
  • Kids
  • Rock N Roll
  • Guitars

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

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Kill
  • Here
  • Stay

• We want to thank (the service members) the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll.

  

  Neil Patrick Fallon The Bakerton Group
  • Service
  • Members
  • Rock N Roll

• Playing live is a lot of fun. You get one shot, ... But at the end of the day, it's all rock 'n' roll.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Rock

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

  

  Suzi Quatro
  • Music
  • Rock N Roll
  • Puberty

• Berry's On Top is probably my favorite record of all time; it defines rock and roll. A lot of people have done Chuck Berry songs, but to get that feel is really hard. It's the rock and roll thing-the push-pull and the rhythm of it.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • People
  • Record
  • Rhythm

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