Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 12

• I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

  Ray Davies

  Jobs, Rocks, Might

  Song: Top of the Pops

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• 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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• We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

  John Anderson

  Mind, Answers, Kind

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• I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Done, Thee

  Song: Bird On The Wire, 1969

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• If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you.

  Alice Cooper

  Two, Causes, Volume

  Song: Adaptable, Album: Zipper Catches Skin, 1982

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• I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.

  Billy Joel

  Girl, Kind, All Kinds

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• Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.

  Willie Nelson

  Believe, Rocks, Leaving

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• Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

  Bob Seger

  Lying, Echoes, Bed

  Bob Seger, The Silver Bullet Band (2012). “Bob Seger - Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets (Songbook)”, p.45, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.

  Jackson Browne

  Children, Bye, Secret

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• Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.

  John Lennon

  Soul, Touching, Spirit

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• My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower.

  Jon Stewart

  Two, Rocks, Hands

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• My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.

  Tom Petty

  Yuppies, Dating, Lucky

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• I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

  Ian McLagan

  Mom, Hurt, Dad

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• One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

  Bob Dylan

  Fire, Race, Rats

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.

  Frank Zappa

  Love You, Groupie, Promoters

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• Out stretched hands and one night stands, still I can't find love.

  Kid Rock

  Night, Hands, Finding Love

  Song: Only God Knows Why, Album: Devil Without a Cause, 1998

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• Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.

  Kim Mitchell

  Song, Jukebox, Body

  Song: Lager and Ale

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• Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Air, Hands, Rocks

  Song: Get The Picture

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• The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.

  Bob Dylan

  Rap, Rocks, Names

  Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 13, 2009.

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• Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes.

  Elvis Presley

  Mother, Rocks, People

  Interview quoting in "Pop Chronicles", "Show 7 - The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. Part 1", 1956.

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• I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

  Elvis Presley

  Rocks, Records, Selling

  Interview, quoting in "Pop Chronicles", "Show 55 - Crammer: A lively cram course on the history of rock and some other things", 1956.

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• Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

  Hilary Hahn

  Writing, Rocks, Ears

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Rocks, Dna, Roots

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• I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on.

  John Belushi

  Rocks, Gone, May

  Inscription on John Belushi's grave, www.findagrave.com.

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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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