Rock N Roll Quotes
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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.
Adam Clayton U2 -
Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith
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Rock n' roll was a bad and evil thing. l remember once I was singing a Barry Manilow song, "Mandy," In the back seat of the car. It came on the radio, and I kind of sang with it, and I got smacked In the mouth because that song was "evil."
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
I think the Birmingham accent has a lot to do with that, it certainly doesn't help you when you're trying to put a point across. We also set ourselves up for it sometimes by getting drunk and doing stupid things, but I thought that was what rock 'n' roll was all about.
Clint Mansell -
People who are looking for art in rock 'n' roll or pop are looking for something that either doesn't or shouldn't exist.
Billy Joel -
Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.
Grace Slick Starship -
Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.
John Lennon The Beatles
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
Bono U2 -
I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.
Robby Krieger The Doors -
On 'Hairless Toys,' I've tried to create an ambiguous character to go with an ambiguous record. She's anything but rock n' roll - she's so not rock n' roll that, in a twisted way, she's kind of radical. She's like someone from my memory, almost like my mother, and she's lost in some space-time between the 1960s and the late '80s.
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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.
Cedric Gervais
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Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.
Alice Cooper -
The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.
Paul Stanley Kiss -
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
Bono U2 -
Rock n' roll is about attitude and rebellion. It's supposed to be fun and spontaneous.
Slash Guns N' Roses -
The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac -
Today it feels as if rock'n'roll has sort of turned in on its self, kids are 'rockin' to the same groups their parents do/did. We've seen it recently with The Stone Roses reunion shows, quite unique but is it healthy. Wasn't the 60's about rebelling against the tastes of your parents?
Andrew Loog Oldham
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I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see there's blues and there's country...Then you go back from country into American music...and you end up in Scotland and Ireland eventually.
Elvis Costello -
There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.
Steve Winwood Blind Faith