Best 95 quotes in «rock n roll quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

It's either true or it's not.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

All rock n roll is homosexual.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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