Rock N Roll Quotes
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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.
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The key to longevity? Maybe putting an album out every four years - people don't get bored of you! No, just joking. I think, not taking yourself too seriously. You've got to have a sense of humor. You have to be strong-willed to put up with all the bullshit that goes with the job. You've got to consistently write good songs, and have the right rock-n-roll attitude. The Stones are a perfect example. If we could last that long, I'd be very happy.
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People who are looking for art in rock 'n' roll or pop are looking for something that either doesn't or shouldn't exist.
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Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.
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I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.
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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.
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Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.
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I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom.
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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."
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The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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I think rock'n'roll essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good - it's against everything that is fixed, all the social structures that you can't go past.
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If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.
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I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.
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I'd always read a lot about rock 'n' roll growing up, but the first real thing I set out to do was become an English professor. Even so, I always hoped in some way or another that I would get to write about music in a popular - non-academic - format.
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Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.
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The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.
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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.
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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?
