Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 18

• This album was designed to touch your soul.

  R. Kelly

  Soul, Albums, Your Soul

  Song: Weatherman, Album: Happy People / U Saved Me

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• This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.

  John Mellencamp

  Sex, Rocks, Serious Business

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• This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.

  George Harrison

  Song, White, Black

  Song: This Song

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• Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

  Big Pun

  Violence

  Song: Parental Discretion, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998

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• Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

  Jerry Reed

  Men, Fire, Guitar

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• You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

  Bob Dylan

  Rocks, Drug, Might

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Song, Gay, Guitar

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

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• Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.

  Emir Kusturica

  Basketball, Beautiful, Country

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• Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

  Krist Novoselic

  Song, Player, Rocks

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• The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Dream, Song, Drawing

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• I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

  Brenda Lee

  Rocks, Foundation, Fame

  Brenda Lee, Robert K. Oermann, Julie Clay (2002). “Little Miss Dynamite: the life and times of Brenda Lee”, Hyperion Books

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• I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

  Manuel Puig

  Rocks, Names, Literature

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• I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

  Steve Perry

  Rocks, Ego, Fans

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

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• I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

  Robert Quine

  Rocks, Transformed

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• My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.

  Tim Cahill

  Jobs, Real, Writing

  "Wild Life: An Interview With Tim Cahill". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2005.

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• No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it’s good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behaviour, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill.

  Kim Gordon

  Rocks, Tolerance, Might

  "Kim Gordon Details Thurston Moore Split, Trashes Courtney Love, Billy Corgan in Memoir" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. February 3, 2015.

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• Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Song, Couple, Rocks

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• I usually listen to classic rock and roll.

  Caleb Landry Jones

  Rocks, Classic, Classic Rock

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

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• I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

  Edgar Winter

  Thinking, Rocks, Singers

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• I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.

  Paris Hilton

  Rocks, Years, Different

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• You see a very advanced master who's got a girlfriend, who listens to rock and roll, who thinks about things that are very earthly. The advanced course has to with coming back to everything that you had to reject in the beginning and seeing it as a far greater infiniteness than everything that you've attained.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Girlfriend, Thinking

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• I worked as a roadie in the rock and roll business which was great fun. Very little money, very little food and the whole thing about the roadie's lifestyle is great because all the groupies have to go through the roadies to get to the rock stars. It's not necessarily true.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Stars, Fun, Rocks

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Rocks, Desire, Heyday

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.

  David Lynch

  Crazy, Rocks, Birth

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.

  Bruno Mars

  Mother, Song, Dad

  Source: www.justjared.com

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