Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 14

• For me, it's more about keeping it simple with a rock and roll edge. It's all about accessorising.

  Lulu

  Simple, Rocks, Edges

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• I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.

  Bon Scott

  Rocks, Australia, Band

  "Best", December 1979.

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• My mother was the one who totally got behind me as far as, do things and ask questions later. My father would say, "I don't care how dirty you are up there, just be funny." Because they knew me offstage. They knew I was a good guy. They knew my whole plan of becoming the most exciting comedian, visually, ever. A real rock-and-roll stand-up comic.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Mother, Father, Real

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.

  Steven Morrissey

  Rocks, Voice, People

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-and I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: 'Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.' Whoooooo! It's life. That's what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.

  Janis Joplin

  Men, Thinking, Rocks

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• I guess you could say there are two Slashes. There's the crazy, rock-and-roll Slash, he's wild. And then there's the real Slash- he collects miniature soaps and treats his hookers real nice.

  Slash

  Crazy, Real, Nice

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• What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

  Joey Ramone

  Real, School, Rocks

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• It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has a lot in common with the spirit of rock and roll and what Woodstock had going on at the time. We are kind of the new kids on the block and this music isn't accepted by everyone so we are still kind of getting into pop culture and I think its appropriate that this festival is here and kicking down the door.

  Kaskade

  Block, Kids, Thinking

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• 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.

  Dion DiMucci

  Sex, Rocks, Feel Good

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• 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.

  Conor Oberst

  Rocks, Records, Making Money

  Source: www.ew.com

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

  Muddy Waters

  Baby, Rocks

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• When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.

  Rick Wakeman

  Book, Rocks, Firsts

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• 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.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Rocks, Order, Firsts

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• If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Rocks, Jazz

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• Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

  Mac Davis

  Lying, Rocks, World

  "Interview with singer/songwriter Mac Davis". Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. May 09, 2015.

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• There's a whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl.

  Kate Pierson

  Girl, Rocks, Personality

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• Every time you read something about Rolling Stones it always mentions their age and how long can they go on? I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.

  Kate Pierson

  Teenage, Thinking, Rocks

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• If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.

  Creed Bratton

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: lamusicblog.com

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• I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really down periods in my life, debauched beyond belief, not knowing what the hell I'm gonna do with my life, [Rolling Stones'] "Street Fighting Man" or something like that would come on the radio, and I'm pounding the dash and the rock and roll will inspire me to keep going. It inspires me. It's true.

  Creed Bratton

  Fighting, Men, Rocks

  Source: lamusicblog.com

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• When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as a listener, and Revival gave me a way to write about rock and roll without being preachy or boring.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Player, Rocks

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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• I like all like classic rock bands like The Beatles and The Who and stuff and Led Zeppelin so I kinda dress like that. Kinda retro I guess. Well not retro but, like tight. I don't know. Like just jeans and shirts. I don't know. Kinda rock and roll I guess.

  Drake Bell

  Rocks, Jeans, Dresses

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• I saw my rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.

  Jon Landau

  Eye, Past, Night

  "The Real Paper" Newspaper, 1974.

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• I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

  Chris Robinson

  Rocks, Water, Want

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

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• Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.

  Ben Folds

  Kids, Rocks, Should

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

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• Some days I pray to the God of sex and drums and rock and roll.

  Meat Loaf

  Sex, Rocks, Evil

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