Rock N Roll Quotes
-
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.
-
I remember when in the early days of rock'n'roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah. Now you can play me one second of any record from that time, and I'll say "1959" or "1961." I can hear precisely. It's like it has a huge date stamp on it.
-
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.
-
Playing live is a lot of fun. You get one shot, ... But at the end of the day, it's all rock 'n' roll.
-
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.
-
A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.
-
Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off.
-
Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock 'n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented.
-
Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.
-
I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
-
There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me.
-
It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released upon the masses in 2012.
-
We want to thank (the service members) the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Rock'n'roll saved my soul.
-
In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.
-
Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.
-
Long, creative relationships are unusual in rock'n'roll, but the mileage and the knowledge and the understanding from having been around with [Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois] for 20 years makes them a pleasure to work with.
-
Rock n' roll is about attitude and rebellion. It's supposed to be fun and spontaneous.
-
I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.
-
I don't really inject the rock 'n' roll thing, what I take from rock 'n' roll is probably the melodies and the musical behind it.
-
In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.
-
This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.
