Best 95 quotes in «rock n roll quotes» category

I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.

I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.

If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.

I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll.

I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'

I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really rock 'n' roll — but he's made me a convert. I do go to their concerts whenever we're in the same town and I don't even have to wear earplugs any more, which I did in the beginning.

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer.

I'm not really this rock'n'roll chick.

I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.

I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.

I never said I was the King Of Rock'n' Roll. I said simply that I'm the best

I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything.

I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.

It don't spit or swear or sleep around. I've always maintained I'm the most radical rock'n'roll singer Britain has ever seen.

It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)

It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.

Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.

It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift.

I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did — challenged me to do the same, and so, even when the content was antiwoman, antisexual, in a sense anti­human, the form encouraged my struggle for liberation.

I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Most of the people who are given these Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them.

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians.

Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun.

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

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.

Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

People say that rock 'n' roll is dead, and I am making it my mission to resurrect it. I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.

Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified.