Rock N Roll Quotes
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We want to say thank you the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll. Any entertainment to break up the work week is great. You can forget about life, relax and have a reminder that there is an appreciation there.
Neil Patrick Fallon The Bakerton Group -
Anyone who says rock ‘n’ roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head.
Alan Freed
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I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.
William Shatner -
As far as the rock 'n' roll format in dance music goes, I don't think it's been done before with such full-on attitude. The idea behind that was because no-one else hade done it. Everything was right at the time for us to do that.
Liam Howlett The Prodigy -
I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything.
Ezra Furman -
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.
Anthony DeCurtis -
I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I think rock'n'roll essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good - it's against everything that is fixed, all the social structures that you can't go past.
Ezra Furman
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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
Cass McCombs -
I want to show everyone what a good rock 'n' roll band we can be.
Steve Porcaro -
We know what we are doing by now.We seem to make an album every 18 months or so and I think every band should do that. We're not writing "Sgt. Pepper" every time; we are writing straight ahead rock n' roll.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead -
I wanted to put reality in my photographs. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That's what was happening. And I was going to help make it happen. Boy, they did not want that in America.
Bob Richardson -
See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.
Evan Dando -
What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.
Ezra Furman
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We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.
Nina Blackwood -
Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
Steven Van Zandt -
Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Little Richard and Etta James all play the same venues. It was a mix of funk, soul, blues and rock 'n' roll.
Phil Collen Def Leppard -
We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.
Ezra Furman -
I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned to country music, like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, but particularly through The Byrds because of Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman (with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo). They kind of introduced English kids to Merle Haggard and George Jones and the Louvins (brothers Charlie and Ira).
Elvis Costello -
If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
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Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.
Ezra Furman -
Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.
Homer -
Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.
Haruki Murakami -
It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.
Sean Penn