Best 245 quotes in «rock and roll quotes» category

I worked as a roadie in the rock and roll business which was great fun. Very little money, very little food and the whole thing about the roadie's lifestyle is great because all the groupies have to go through the roadies to get to the rock stars. It's not necessarily true.

I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.

Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.

Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By.

Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.

Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?

My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower.

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

My guitar wants to kill your mama.

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.

My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.

No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it’s good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behaviour, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill.

People will always have the desire to make rock and roll records, and they'll always have the desire to sell rock and roll records. Most of the people making these records do it because it is a business, and if someone says, "You can't do this", they won't complain. They'll just keep making records, but they'll get blander and blander. There'll still be rock and roll, but compared to what it really could be or ought to be, I don't think it'll be all that terrific.

Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.

Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.

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

Presley brought an excitement to singing, in part because rock and roll was greeted as his invention, but for other reasons not so widely reflected on: Elvis Presley had the most beautiful singing voice of any human being on earth.

Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

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

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

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.

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

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

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