Best 95 quotes in «rock n roll quotes» category

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified.

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.

Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want.

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.

The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right and they think it's okay standing, looking macho. Well, it's not. That's boring. If you want to be a performer you've got to do a lot more work than that.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.

Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.

When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice.

When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock 'n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.

Who's going to save rock 'n' roll? It's so silly. Remember like in '86 or '87 and synthesizers were going to take over the world? And remember "rocktronica" in 1997? It's ridiculous.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

If I sing along a little fucking louder to a happy song I'll be alright.

Just hold on.