Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 7

• Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was a 78 rpm of "Hound Dog" backed by "Don't Be Cruel" and when I listened to those tunes I felt about ten feet tall and I grinned so hard that I felt like the corners of my mouth would meet in the back and the tip of my head would simply topple off. All I know about Rock and Roll is that it makes people feel good. Elvis Presley more than made me feel good, he enriched my life and made it better.

  Stephen King

  Dog, Feet, Rocks

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• Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking. In fact they are the urgent element of poetry in our time, they carry the most emotion for the most people in our culture. everyone LOVES poetry, because we all love (one form or another) of rock and roll (be it folk to emo to rap). It's all rock and roll and all lyric poetry.

  Gregory Orr

  Song, Emo, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever.

  Ted Nugent

  Father, Real, Rocks

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I have undeniable evidence that many have awakened as a result of my raising hell. Raising hell is SO American rock-and-roll. And of course even soulless wimps love killer music and my incredible guitar tone.

  Ted Nugent

  Hell Raising, Rocks, Guitar

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.

  Bjork

  Rocks, Years, People

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.stereogum.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement to its peak and moved people into the streets to seize the day - the movement was the embodiment of what was happening in the music. This is what taught me that it was possible to bring art and activism together. Without that piece, that energetic embodiment piece, the rest is just intellectual construct.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, War, Thinking

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

  Greg Saunier

  Jobs, Rocks, Chaos

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• That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.

  Robert Englund

  Song, Rocks, Looking For Love

  Source: graveconcernsezine.com

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• I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, Ideas, Drug

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People will always have the desire to make rock and roll records, and they'll always have the desire to sell rock and roll records. Most of the people making these records do it because it is a business, and if someone says, "You can't do this", they won't complain. They'll just keep making records, but they'll get blander and blander. There'll still be rock and roll, but compared to what it really could be or ought to be, I don't think it'll be all that terrific.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  Source: afka.net

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• [Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-'60s with the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.

  Bill Walton

  Song, Strong, Grateful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.

  Robert Barry

  Rocks, Guy, Jazz

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• A girl playing rock and roll, it's saying I own my sexuality and I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. And I think people just find that threatening.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Thinking, Rocks

  "Joan Jett Rumbles Back with 'Sinner'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams and Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. July 26, 2006.

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• I like rock and roll t-shirts, tight jeans, and sneakers or boots. Really just laid back, sort of rock and roll. I'm a sneaker person. I don't really like to wear high heels. I'm always really paranoid when I'm on stage playing guitar that I'm going to trip over one of the cords when I'm prancing around so I have on wedges or shoes that are not too high.

  Orianthi

  Rocks, High Heels, Guitar

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I didn't come here to run for President. I really just came here to play rock and roll.

  Katy Perry

  Running, Rocks, Play

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• Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

  Gail Zappa

  Rocks, Information, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You have to be kind of sensitive to be in rock and roll.

  Kemp Muhl

  Rocks, Be Kind, Sensitive

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter of fact, before Mike, Woody and I really got going on touring on the old Animosity stuff, Karl & I did about a dozen shows performing the Blind album from start to finish. He's still a good friend of mine and is now in a band called Lead Foot that's more Rock and Roll but they're fantastic, kind of Thin Lizzy or MC5 sounding.

  Reed Mullin

  Good Friend, Feet, Rocks

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I'm going to try to do as many styles as I can. A salsa number, rock and roll, country.... I've talked to a million people about it. Obviously, I'd love Prince to do it. I'm sure he'll produce the whole album for me.

  Paul Reubens

  Country, Rocks, Numbers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.

  Patti Smith

  Song, Teenager, Holiday

  "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.

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• A lot of festivals can be a jumble of electronic music and rock and roll, and everything's all mixed up - some things are more performance art or light shows or dance parties, and then you'll have a singer-songwriter stuck in the middle to make the changeovers easier.

  Jenny O.

  Art, Light, Rocks

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll?

  Joan Jett

  Mean, Rocks, Play

  "Joan Jett Rumbles Back with 'Sinner'". "Day To Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. July 26, 2006.

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• My encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll is a millstone around my neck.

  Horace Panter

  Rocks, Necks

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.

  Dave Grohl

  Stars, Confused, Rocks

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• Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake their shackle.

  Gene Simmons

  Kings, Kids, Rocks

  "Viva Elvis" at Cirque du Soleil, February 19, 2010.

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