Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 8

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  Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Adults, Answers, Mystery

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

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• I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Rocks, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Narrative, Tradition, Storytelling

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty- five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?.

  John Hughes

  Rocks, People, Twenties

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• I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

  Ringo Starr

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• When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

  Jon Landau

  Cutting, Rocks, Performing

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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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• Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

  Trey Anastasio

  Writing, Piano, Guitar

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• It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll

  Brian Cox

  Business, Rocks, Ideas

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• I worked in Bhs, but I was only there for a couple of weeks before I got fired because I needed the Saturday off to go to drama club. I was useless - I was so bored. There was nothing to do, so I'd go and do a circuit of the store, throwing jumpers on the floor, then go and pick them up. It wasn't rock 'n' roll rebellion, it was just to look busy. They tried to teach me how to work the till and I'm useless with numbers, so I was making it all up as I went along. I must have lost them tons of money.

  Joanna Page

  Couple, Drama, Numbers

  "Within minutes of meeting James Corden, you'll want to sleep with him". The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2008.

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• What I wanted to do in rock'n'roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, Two, People

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, Four, Hours

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming about. Punk was rebellious-and justified in that response-but it had very little to do with music, and so it created a highly-charged but frighteningly floundering atmosphere that I found very, very disheartening. Musical quality for me has always been an important part of rock'n'roll-and winning recognition for that has long been an uphill battle all the way. Punk seemed like rock'n'roll utterly without the music.

  Steve Winwood

  Country, Winning, Rocks

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• I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's always been writing for me. I evolved with my band in rock 'n' roll through poetry, not through music.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love the classic trucker jacket as an icon of rock 'n' roll and rebellion.

  Shepard Fairey

  Rocks, Icons, Classic

  Source: www.complex.com

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• NUTHIN' more fun than Rock n' Roll!

  Elvis Presley

  Fun, Rocks

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• Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

  Russell Simmons

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Lessons

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in the urban communities, were about the American Dream, and the lack of opportunity in that structure. So they talked about everything - uplifting and getting what is perceived as success in America.

  Russell Simmons

  Uplifting, Dream, Opportunity

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• I am always the Baywatch girl at heart. The rock 'n' roll got harder and softer but I wouldn't give up those times for anything.

  Pamela Anderson

  Girl, Giving Up, Heart

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• I'm a rock 'n' roll guy, really. I'm a big fan of Elvis. I got "Heartbreak Hotel" tattooed on my chest.

  Ed Westwick

  Rocks, Guy, Fans

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 16, 2009.

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• I really didn't know a lot of rock 'n' roll until I moved to L.A. Before that, when I was in New York, I grew up listening mostly to R&B and soul and jazz.

  Lenny Kravitz

  New York, Rocks, Soul

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Rocks, White, Black

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• What I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and the most open form created by our generation. The cool thing about it is that you get the power, you get the rhythm; you can be taken over sexually, you can be taken over cerebrally; it's great to look at - it's a package deal.

  Patti Smith

  Taken, Rocks, Our Generation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.

  RuPaul

  Creating, Rocks, Atlanta

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember when in the early days of rock'n'roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah. Now you can play me one second of any record from that time, and I'll say "1959" or "1961." I can hear precisely. It's like it has a huge date stamp on it.

  Brian Eno

  Rocks, Play, Different

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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