Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 15

• The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Rocks, Order, Firsts

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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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• For me, it's more about keeping it simple with a rock and roll edge. It's all about accessorising.

  Lulu

  Simple, Rocks, Edges

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• In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago, in that eating has become incredibly political. And just as the street has always dictated fashions on music and other things, it’s starting to happen that way in food.

  Jonathan Gold

  Fashion, Thinking, Rocks

  "Street Food Fight" by Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. December 1, 2009.

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• Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.

  Cub Koda

  Artist, Rocks, Voice

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• As soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.

  Slash

  Running, Taken, Rocks

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. February 16, 2011.

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• People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.

  John Darnielle

  Rocks, People, Mad

  John Darnielle (2008). “Black Sabbath's Master of Reality”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never--never--a bout surrender.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Giving Up, Optimistic, Kids

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• I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

  Eddie Van Halen

  Rocks, Band, Kick Ass

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• When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.

  Art Garfunkel

  Home, Rocks, Wire

  "Song Talk Interview". Interview with Paul Zollo, www.artgarfunkel.com. 1990.

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• I like all like classic rock bands like The Beatles and The Who and stuff and Led Zeppelin so I kinda dress like that. Kinda retro I guess. Well not retro but, like tight. I don't know. Like just jeans and shirts. I don't know. Kinda rock and roll I guess.

  Drake Bell

  Rocks, Jeans, Dresses

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Some days I pray to the God of sex and drums and rock and roll.

  Meat Loaf

  Sex, Rocks, Evil

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• I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  School, Rocks, Jugs

  "A 'Handsome' Tribute From Loudon Wainwright". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 19, 2009.

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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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• Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.

  Steven Morrissey

  Rocks, Voice, People

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• My mother was the one who totally got behind me as far as, do things and ask questions later. My father would say, "I don't care how dirty you are up there, just be funny." Because they knew me offstage. They knew I was a good guy. They knew my whole plan of becoming the most exciting comedian, visually, ever. A real rock-and-roll stand-up comic.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Mother, Father, Real

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.

  Bon Scott

  Rocks, Australia, Band

  "Best", December 1979.

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