Best 245 quotes in «rock and roll quotes» category

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.

Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse.

Rock and roll is my religion.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.

Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is all my brain and body need. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is very good indeed.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.

Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.

That one record changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it's the most influential record in the history of rock and roll. It affected Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply. Philosophically, other albums may have been more important, like Lennon's first solo album. But sonically, the way the record's constructed, I think Music from Big Pink is fundamental to everything that happened after it.

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium.

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends with the band. Theyre not really journalists; theyre people who want to be involved in rock and roll.

The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright.

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.

The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.

The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ. The two are melded together in ways both unpredictable and unsure.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

Well all of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks, get into your kicks. Come back baby, rock and roll never forgets.

This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.

What are you gonna fill your life up with when you don't have that ultimate satisfaction or peace in your life? You try to fill it up with wealth, pleasure, honor, power, sex, drugs and Rock and Roll to try to feel good.