Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 12

• It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Paul Stanley

  Inspiration, Artist, Rocks

  "PAUL STANLEY Slams JANN WENNER For KISS 'Rock Hall' Snub". www.blabbermouth.net. May 20, 2013.

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• I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

  Grace Slick

  Rocks, Long, People

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• You know, I guess there's enough information out there to support that I'm a crazy, wild dude and rock and roll and this, that and the other. And there's enough information to support that, you know, I'm a single father, that, you know, has been a pretty standup guy in his community and pretty private about that stuff. But it's on both sides.

  Kid Rock

  Father, Crazy, Rocks

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. July 6, 2011.

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• I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Looks, Legends

  "When John Waters met Little Richard". Interview with John Waters, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

  Manuel Puig

  Rocks, Literature, Idiot

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• It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

  Robert Plant

  Rocks, Beauty And Love, Singers

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• It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

  Liz Phair

  Rocks, Blue, Done

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• I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

  Jason Aldean

  Rocks, Listening, Grew Up

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• But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

  James Young

  Music, Rocks, Fans

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• I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

  Dee Snider

  Stars, Rocks, Order

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.

  John Lahr

  Summer, Sweet, Heart

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• I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

  Graham Nash

  Mean, First Love, Love Is

  "The Eye of the Acoustic Storm". The Acoustic Storm Interview, www.acousticstorm.com.

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• I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Song, Rocks, Play

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• I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

  Edward Furlong

  Confused, Rocks, Getting High

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Pete Townshend

  Writing, Rocks, Swag

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• Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Rocks

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• The original concept of rock and roll... was supposed to be this young angst with mistakes and all. Four or five guys get together, get angry and that's really how it starts, and it's all this energy.

  Peter Frampton

  Mistake, Rocks, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

  John Cale

  Rocks, Artistic, Should

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• 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.

  Connie Britton

  Country, Rocks, Virginia

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.

  Minnie Pearl

  Pregnancy, Boys, Men

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• I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

  Rosemary Clooney

  Rocks, Stuff, Lasts

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• I just love to play rock and roll. I love to write songs all the time
  about what's up on these streets. I write songs about people getting killed; I write songs about people getting beaten up; I write songsabout people getting taken to jail by the police; and I also write songs about love and happiness.

  Wesley Willis

  Song, Taken, Writing

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• It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that

  Scott Weiland

  Thinking, Rocks, Fans

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• I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.

  Raf Simons

  Rocks, Techno

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• Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.

  Billy Corgan

  Live Life, Rocks, People

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