Best 95 quotes in «rock n roll quotes» category

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

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 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 sexuality personified.

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

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 to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

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

It's either true or it's not.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings that every day. He goes to the job, does his work, pays his bills and comes home. One plus one equals two. It keeps the world spinning. But artists, musicians, con men, poets, mystics and such are paid to turn that math on its head, to rub two sticks together and bring forth fire. Everybody performs this alchemy somewhere in their life, but it’s hard to hold on to and easy to forget. People don’t come to rock shows to learn something. They come to be reminded of something they already know and feel deep down in their gut. That when the world is at its best, when we are at our best, when life feels fullest, one and one equals three. It’s the essential equation of love, art, rock ’n’ roll and rock ’n’ roll bands. It’s the reason the universe will never be fully comprehensible, love will continue to be ecstatic, confounding, and true rock ’n’ roll will never die.

Just hold on.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" - Billy Connolly

No one wants to die or even plans to die, at least not when you are young and living life on top of everything, stepping on gold, running the miles with hot chicks on tow, but even if I wasn’t a rock star, and just a normal civilian, I still wouldn’t plan to die young. Death is so boring.

Tell me sir if you will, where in the Bible does it state that it’s ok to judge others based purely on assumption? Can you see now who is the lesser evil between the two?

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

Where's the sun? Sometimes I never see the sun.

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

All rock n roll is homosexual.

A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.

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.

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn't like it.

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

Being in a rock n' roll and pop world, it's very easy to act like a kid.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.