Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 13

• Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.

  Steven Adler

  Rocks, Years, Needs

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• By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Mean, Rocks, I Can

  "DIVA TALK: A Chat with Piazza's Kelli O'Hara Plus News of Menzel, Haran and Lansbury". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 26, 2005.

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• When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Rocks, Simplicity, Today

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• Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

  The Edge

  Rocks, Careers, Hobbies

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• You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.

  Pamela Des Barres

  Nice, Rocks, Lunch

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• I think anything that you put your life's energy into becomes part of your identity. It would be difficult for the Rolling Stones to not play rock and roll anymore, because that's their image of themselves. When you've convinced everybody that that's who you are, that's who you are.

  Jim Bridwell

  Thinking, Rocks, Climbing

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• New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.

  Huey Lewis

  Song, New York, Inspiration

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• The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of villages warning of danger, 'When night wolf swallows mother moon, there will be great famine.'

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mother, Night, Moon

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• If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll

  Steven Adler

  Rocks, Eagles, Police

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• A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.

  Wes Montgomery

  Cutting, Rocks, Guitar

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• Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

  Fats Domino

  New Orleans, Rocks, Rhythm And Blues

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• Rock and roll is commitment. Rock and roll is passion and spirit.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Passion, Commitment, Rocks

  Twitter post from Mar 12, 2018

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• I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.

  Debby Boone

  Dad, Wall, Rocks

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• Berry's On Top is probably my favorite record of all time; it defines rock and roll. A lot of people have done Chuck Berry songs, but to get that feel is really hard. It's the rock and roll thing-the push-pull and the rhythm of it.

  Joe Perry

  Song, Rocks, People

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• 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?

  Billy Idol

  Dad, Fun, Rocks

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

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• Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

  Billy Joel

  Rocks, Junk, Hot

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• I started The Runaways with Sandy West. We shared the dream of girls playing rock and roll. Sandy was an exuberant and powerful drummer. So underrated, she was the caliber of John Bonham. I am overcome from the loss of my friend. I always told her, we changed the world.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Dream, Powerful

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• Rock and roll is the new pornography.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Rocks, Pornography

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• No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Rocks, Musical, Ensemble

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• Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz
  Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug
  If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug
  Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug.

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Rocks, Feet

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• I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

  Sam Shepard

  Stars, Rocks, Want

  Sam Shepard (1997). “Plays”

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• I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.

  Slash

  Rocks, Dixie, Chicks

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• My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.

  Slash

  Dad, Rocks, Guitar

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. February 16, 201.

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• On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Pace, Matter

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

  Amanda Palmer

  Rocks, Jeans, Band

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

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