Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 14

• It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

  David Bowie

  Rocks, Bling, Realms

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• Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz
  Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug
  If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug
  Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug.

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Rocks, Feet

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• If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Rocks, Jazz

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• Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

  Mac Davis

  Lying, Rocks, World

  "Interview with singer/songwriter Mac Davis". Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. May 09, 2015.

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• I wanted to be a broadcaster, sportscaster, or gameshow host from a very early age. I did my first broadcasting when I was 10 or 11 - into a tape recorder for my brother's football game, and for local events. A local radio station was experimenting with high school disc jockeys for rock and roll shifts - I applied - and got the job.

  Ralph Strangis

  Football, Brother, Jobs

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• Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything.

  Elton John

  Rocks, Forever, Black

  "Interview: Elton John Talks Gnomeo And Juliet And His Long Career". Interview with Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. February 09, 2011.

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• It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has a lot in common with the spirit of rock and roll and what Woodstock had going on at the time. We are kind of the new kids on the block and this music isn't accepted by everyone so we are still kind of getting into pop culture and I think its appropriate that this festival is here and kicking down the door.

  Kaskade

  Block, Kids, Thinking

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• What are you gonna fill your life up with when you don't have that ultimate satisfaction or peace in your life? You try to fill it up with wealth, pleasure, honor, power, sex, drugs and Rock and Roll to try to feel good.

  Dion DiMucci

  Sex, Rocks, Feel Good

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• People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.

  Lou Reed

  Song, School, Writing

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

  Sam Shepard

  Stars, Rocks, Want

  Sam Shepard (1997). “Plays”

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• When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.

  Rick Wakeman

  Book, Rocks, Firsts

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• The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

  Muddy Waters

  Baby, Rocks

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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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• The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

  Amanda Palmer

  Rocks, Jeans, Band

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

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• All rock and roll is homosexual.

  Richey Edwards

  Rocks, Homosexual

  "Everything: A Book About Manic Street Preachers". Book by Simon Price (p. 114), 1999.

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• Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Shows

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• I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Rocks, Territory

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• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  Waylon Jennings

  Umpires, Rocks, Judging

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• The whole idea of rock and roll lifestyle is a cartoon. It's a caricature. And at times, it's made up of people emulating others; a few who actually live that lifestyle and many who claim to live that lifestyle.

  Paul Stanley

  Rocks, Ideas, People

  "How KISS Frontman Paul Stanley Keeps Fit". Interview with Ben Radding, www.mensfitness.com.

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• Enjoy music. Not the kind that rocks and rolls, but the music of the masters, the music that has lived through the centuries, the music that has lifted people. If you do not have a taste for it, listen to it thoughtfully. If you do not like it the first time, listen to it again and keep listening.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Music, Rocks, People

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• The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.

  Matisyahu

  Rocks, Hip Hop, World

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• I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

  Eric Burdon

  Rocks, Alive, Turns

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