Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 13

• Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

  Bob Geldof

  Coffee, Rocks, Instant

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• People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don't have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Stars, Rocks, Order

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• Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

  John Lennon

  Song, Rocks, America

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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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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• 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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• When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.

  John Lennon

  Kids, Rocks, Break Through

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you.

  Willie Nelson

  Country, Rocks, People

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• It's time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, hypocrisy, and callous indifference to those in need.

  Arianna Huffington

  Sex, Lying, Rocks

  Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.270, Crown

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• Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium.

  Will Sheff

  Emotional, Rocks, Songwriting

  The Believer Interview, believermagblog.wordpress.com. July 26, 2013.

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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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• 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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• Well all of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks, get into your kicks. Come back baby, rock and roll never forgets.

  Bob Seger

  Baby, Children, Rocks

  Song: Rock and Roll Never Forgets, Album: Night Moves

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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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• 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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• When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

  Ray Davies

  Rocks, World, Way

  Ray Davies (2000). “Waterloo Sunset: Stories”, Hyperion

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• When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.

  Bill Haley

  Band, Clock, Slow Down

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• You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Play, Bed, Scream

  Song: Rock and Roll Is Dead

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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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• 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 they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

  Joey Ramone

  Real, School, Rocks

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• If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-and I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: 'Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.' Whoooooo! It's life. That's what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.

  Janis Joplin

  Men, Thinking, Rocks

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• I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.

  Slash

  Rocks, Dixie, Chicks

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• I guess you could say there are two Slashes. There's the crazy, rock-and-roll Slash, he's wild. And then there's the real Slash- he collects miniature soaps and treats his hookers real nice.

  Slash

  Crazy, Real, Nice

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• I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.

  John Lydon

  Country, Hero, Mean

  "What's up? Docs!" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• . . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

  Lester Bangs

  Art, Rocks, Democracy

  Lester Bangs (1980). “Blondie”, Touchstone

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