Rock And Roll Quotes

• If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

  Kurt Cobain

  Rocks, Jail, Rock N Roll

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• My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die.

  Neil Young

  Rocks, Hey, Dies

  Filmcritica, No. 301-310, 1980.

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• The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

  Frank Zappa

  Business, Rocks, World

  YouTube Chanel "hazzaroonee"/ "frank zappa on london plus uk tv 24.9.84", www.youtube.com. February 24, 2007.

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• If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Rocks

  Mike Douglas Show in 1972. "John Lennon: In His Own Words", Book by Ken Lawrence, p. 107, 2005.

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• Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Necks

  "Rock & Roll Facts, Figures & Fun". Book by Mike Evans, 2005.

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• Rock and roll is here to stay.

  Neil Young

  Rocks, Rock N Roll

  "My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (song) (1978). The last sentence was quoted by singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain in his suicide note, 8 Apr. 1994. See Richard Cumberland 1

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• Peace Love Rock and Roll!!!

  Carrie Underwood

  Rocks, Peace Love

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• If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.

  Robin Trower

  Rocks, Want, Forget

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• Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Rocks, Political

  Interview with Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, March 04, 1966.

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• Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

  Frank Sinatra

  Music, Rocks, Expression

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• Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other, living in peace and harmony.

  Richie Havens

  Love, Spiritual, Peace

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• We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

  John Lennon

  Music, Jesus, Rocks

  Interview with Maureen Cleave in Evening Standard 4 Mar. 1966. Cf. Zelda Fitzgerald

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• The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Sex, Dope, Rocks

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• Let's face it. Rock and Roll is bigger than all of us

  Alan Freed

  Rocks, Faces, Bigger

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• A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Hangover, Drinking, Kids

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• Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Mean, Rocks, Trying

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• Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Bernie Worrell

  Rocks, Fame, Halls

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• As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.

  David Byrne

  Attitude, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  Rolling Stone Magazine, December 13, 1990.

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• Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

  John Lennon

  Faith, Jesus, Political

  Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.15, Omnibus Press

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• Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Writing, Humor

  Quoted in Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 1978

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• No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

  Frank Zappa

  Change, Rocks, Musical

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• My son Jack just got out of rehab, he's 17 years old and he got hooked on Oxycontin and I'm just a little pissed off that he never gave me a few.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Son, Oxycontin, Years

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• Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

  Peter York

  Rocks, World, Hamburgers

  Peter York (1980). “Style wars”, Sidgwick & Jackson

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• Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is all my brain and body need. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is very good indeed.

  Ian Dury

  Sex, Rocks, Drug

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