Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 15

• The angels had guitars before they had wings.

  Meat Loaf

  Angel, Guitar, Wings

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• It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Stars, Wall, Rocks

  "Jon Bon Jovi The Businessman". www.huffingtonpost.com. Ocotber 6, 2008.

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• It's really hard to make records and concentrate and have a free mind, because I have this whole other life. If you don't have kids it's a whole other thing. I think you can be fifty and still have a rock and roll lifestyle; you can still perpetuate that.

  Pat Benatar

  Kids, Thinking, Rocks

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

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• We are a band that stylistically crosses a lot of barriers and generational gaps. The heavier portion of the band, the modern music elements, the visual part of the band appeal to a younger audience. For an older audience, we have chops and great songs that are reminiscent of the things that were great about rock and roll when they enjoyed it. We're the kind of band that can cross those lines.

  Andy Biersack

  Song, Rocks, Gaps

  Interview with John Katic, www.revolvermag.com. March 5, 2013.

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• I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music.

  Hamid Drake

  Rocks, Jazz, Tradition

  Source: the-attic.net

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• 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.

  Ian Anderson

  Thinking, Rocks, Style

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• I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.

  John Lydon

  Country, Hero, Mean

  "What's up? Docs!" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• Rock and roll has had a powerful anti-Christian subtheme for decades now.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, Powerful

  D. James Kennedy (1997). “The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail: The Attack on Christianity and What You Need to Know to Combat It”, Nelson Reference & Electronic Publishing

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• Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

  Larry R. Williams

  Rocks, Pulse, Ends

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• There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in these restless and edgy poems. Conversational and kinetic, these poems chart the traces left by the shifting overlays of the templates of literature, rock-and-roll, and contemporary culture. As each poem in Still Life attempts to fix a focus upon a scene or subject, the protean natures under view draw the poet into the eddies and complexities of reflection. This is a powerful and moving collection of poems.

  David St. John

  Powerful, Moving, Reflection

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• All rock and roll is homosexual.

  Richey Edwards

  Rocks, Homosexual

  "Everything: A Book About Manic Street Preachers". Book by Simon Price (p. 114), 1999.

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• It's Only Rock and Roll.

  Mick Jagger

  Rocks

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• Rock and roll is about having a good time.

  Andy Biersack

  Bvb, Rocks, Black Veil Brides

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2010

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• I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

  Eric Burdon

  Rocks, Alive, Turns

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• I wanted to be a broadcaster, sportscaster, or gameshow host from a very early age. I did my first broadcasting when I was 10 or 11 - into a tape recorder for my brother's football game, and for local events. A local radio station was experimenting with high school disc jockeys for rock and roll shifts - I applied - and got the job.

  Ralph Strangis

  Football, Brother, Jobs

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• Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything.

  Elton John

  Rocks, Forever, Black

  "Interview: Elton John Talks Gnomeo And Juliet And His Long Career". Interview with Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. February 09, 2011.

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• . . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

  Lester Bangs

  Art, Rocks, Democracy

  Lester Bangs (1980). “Blondie”, Touchstone

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• All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.

  Lou Reed

  Writing, Rocks, Would Be

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.

  William S. Burroughs

  Rocks, Storm, Acid

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.

  Ted Nugent

  Rocks, Guy, Heard

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• Now I'm grown up and playing in a band.

  Ray Davies

  Band

  Song: Come Dancing

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• I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

  Matt Berninger

  Thinking, Rocks, Perspective

  "The National". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. February 5, 2006.

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• I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.

  Alex Timbers

  Thinking, Rocks, Comedy

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the Pornographers would do it. If it was kind of moody and more lyrical, then maybe it would be a Destroyer song. Anything that's really lyrically driven I would keep for Destroyer.

  Dan Bejar

  Song, Rocks, Would Be

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I actually do see rock and roll as pop music. I think the distinction I was making was that I was going out of my way to have a very consistent approach to production, where nothing kind of punctures the reality - or, I guess, the fake reality - of the album and what you're listening to from beginning to end.

  Dan Bejar

  Reality, Thinking, Rocks

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

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