Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 19

• If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Rocks, Desire, Heyday

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.

  George Harrison

  Disease, Rabies, Fleas

  Song: Cockamamie Business

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• 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.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Stars, Fun, Rocks

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio.

  Greil Marcus

  Betrayal, Rocks, Play

  "Talkin’ Bob Dylan". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 19, 2010.

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• My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.

  Bruno Mars

  Mother, Song, Dad

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide.

  Bob Dylan

  Son, Guitar, Bakers

  Song: Romance in Durango, Album: Desire

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• Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.

  Bryan Adams

  Thinking, Play, Six

  Song: Summer Of '69

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• She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.

  Billy Joel

  Quiet, Heavy Metal, Type

  Song: Modern Woman, Album: The Bridge, 1986

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• Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse.

  Rick Derringer

  Light, Rocks, Mama

  Song: Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo

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• Ten silver saxes,
  a bass with a bow
  The drummer relaxes
  and waits between shows
  For his cinnamon girl.

  Neil Young

  Girl, Relax, Cinnamon

  Neil Young (2010). “Neil Young - Greatest Hits (Songbook): Easy Guitar with Notes and Tab”, p.16, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.

  Don Felder

  Way, Heavy Metal, Metals

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

  Ringo Starr

  Rocks, Soul, Clear

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• I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.

  Paris Hilton

  Rocks, Years, Different

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• You see a very advanced master who's got a girlfriend, who listens to rock and roll, who thinks about things that are very earthly. The advanced course has to with coming back to everything that you had to reject in the beginning and seeing it as a far greater infiniteness than everything that you've attained.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Girlfriend, Thinking

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• Sweet music, and your secret heart. Both have the healing grace.

  Jon Anderson

  Sweet, Healing, Heart

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• These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.

  Frank Zappa

  Girl, Song, Guy

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• Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

  Roberta Flack

  Song, Pain, Singing

  Song: Killing Me Softly with His Song, Album: Killing Me Softly

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• I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.

  David Lynch

  Crazy, Rocks, Birth

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

  Rick Moranis

  Thinking, Rocks, Television

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

  Pete Townshend

  Rocks, World, Matter

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• I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Rocks, Play, Band

  Song: Rosalita, 1973

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• If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

  Nikki Sixx

  Rocks, People, Albums

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• The Beatles did everything long before anyone else. They weren't afraid to try things and to experiment with a lot of sounds. In 200 years, when you look up 'rock and roll' in the dictionary, it'll have a picture of the Beatles next to it.

  Joe Perry

  Rocks, Years, Long

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• Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

  Bill Griffith

  Rocks, America, Culture

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• Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves.

  David Bowie

  Believe, Rocks, Devil

  "David Bowie: Ground Control to Davy Jones". Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.rollingstone.com. February 12, 1976.

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