Best 95 quotes in «rock n roll quotes» category

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.

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

It's either true or it's not.

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

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

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.

Just hold on.

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?

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.

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

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.

All rock n roll is homosexual.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.

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.

Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.

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

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

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

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 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 am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.

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

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 set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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