Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 6

• I sold my soul to rock 'n' roll.

  Bette Midler

  Rocks, Soul, My Soul

  "Song: 'Sold My Soul To Rock 'N' Roll'". 1979.

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• Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

  Neil Young

  Singing, Pepsi, Looks

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• Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

  Rod Stewart

  Guitar, Steel, Courses

  Song: Mandolin Wind, Album: Every Picture Tells a Story, 1971

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• Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

  Bob Geldof

  Coffee, Rocks, Instant

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• This is a record I ended up having to make to get on to the next stage of my life. What I did was a desperate thing to do. I'm aware of the fact that it was irrational. I didn't mean to make it sound like it was my master plan. The tour had even been going all right, but I was just kind of fed up with the situation as it was, playing the same old rock and roll crap that everyone goes through, the general moaning when you really should be grateful that you don't work in the checkout counter at the grocery.

  Luke Haines

  Grateful, Mean, Rocks

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• I was really crying the morning after the indication. However I am over that now. Nevertheless, I am proud for it to be in the Rock and Roll hall of fame. But I've got two copies of the guitar now, to remind of the original Teardrop.

  Dave Wakeling

  Morning, Two, Rocks

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• There's a great rock and roll scene in Sweden. There are many smaller bands like ourselves that are great. Oh yes, there's a band called Eggstone, they're really good, and a band called the Soundtrack Of Our Lives, which is excellent.

  Nina Persson

  Rocks, Band, Sweden

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• Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when I started to listen to music on my own it was around the time of the birth of rock and roll. Shortly thereafter I started to get into more blues and more traditional rootsy American music.

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Kids, Rocks, Parent

  Interview with Scott Preston, www.cincygroove.com. April 3, 2008.

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• What I can't understand why Blacks can't achieve royal status when it comes to forms that they have largely created? I mean there's a White King of Rock n' Roll, there's a White King of Jazz, how come we can never achieve titles of royalty in these fields we are supposed to prevail in? They held a so called Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the other night, where White judges credit people who resemble them with the invention of Rock and Roll. I didn't even see Blacks in the audience.

  Ishmael Reed

  Kings, Mean, Night

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books and fake ghetto music. Elvis Presley, whom they idol, is merely a karaoke makeover of James Brown and Chuck Berry.

  Ishmael Reed

  Book, Ghetto, Rocks

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think as a music listener you have your rock and roll dreams. I personally wouldn't want to apply that necessarily, mainly because I love music too much to mess it up.

  Elijah Wood

  Dream, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll.

  David Simon

  Loss, Rocks, America

  Source: progressive.org

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• A lot of [my] songs have a sexuality to them, a vibe to them. ... I call it sexy rock and roll.

  Scott Stapp

  Sexy, Song, Rocks

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• I know my ambitions are big, but you've got to have something after rock and roll.

  Meredith Brooks

  Ambition, Rocks, Bigs

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• The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.

  Waylon Jennings

  Rocks, Hollies, Bass

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• I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Sports, Team, Rocks

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• Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.

  Darius Rucker

  Fall, Rocks, Choices

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• What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mean, Rocks, Piano

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• The script was classic Joe Eszterhas, intelligent, steamy and provocative. At one time, Eszterhas was Hollywood's highest paid writer, illiterate rock and roll bad boy whose 14 films glorified sex, drugsa nd cigarettes. Eszterhas also fought publicly with producers and politicians. In 1995 he argued that some of the misdeeds of the Nixon, Reagan and Bush administrations were more obscene than anything in an "R" rated movie.

  David Shuster

  Sex, Boys, Intelligent

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big kind of rock-and-roll road trip comedy that has heart and that has hopefully you feel bad for Russell and you feel bad for Aldeus and also I wanted to surprise people with some of the turns in the movie and I think when I watched it with audiences they certainly...the reactions made me think that we did and so all that I'm just very excited about it.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Mean, Heart, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• In 1965, my father was just twirling the dial of the radio to find something that would make me go to sleep, and as soon as I heard rock and roll there was no stopping me. It was during the height of Beatlemania and the British invasion, but I gravitated toward the harder, heavier music going on then, you know, the early Rolling Stones, the good Rolling Stones, and Paul Revere and the Raiders, who don't get the credit they deserve for spearheading the American '60s garage sound.

  Jello Biafra

  Father, Sleep, Rocks

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.

  Al Kooper

  Rocks, Influence, Twisted

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• The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.

  Courtney Love

  Dream, Jobs, Rocks

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• Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might be a little different.

  Slash

  Sex, Rocks, Hands

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• My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

  Larry Norman

  Religious, Rocks, Stores

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