Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 2

• Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is all my brain and body need. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is very good indeed.

  Ian Dury

  Sex, Rocks, Drug

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• My son Jack just got out of rehab, he's 17 years old and he got hooked on Oxycontin and I'm just a little pissed off that he never gave me a few.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Son, Oxycontin, Years

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• Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Writing, Humor

  Quoted in Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 1978

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• No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

  Frank Zappa

  Change, Rocks, Musical

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

  John Lennon

  Faith, Jesus, Political

  Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.15, Omnibus Press

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• A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Hangover, Drinking, Kids

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• If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.

  Robin Trower

  Rocks, Want, Forget

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• Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Thinking, Rocks

  "Interview: Joan Jett and Kenny Laguna". Interview with Mark Huddle, www.verbicidemagazine.com. June 11, 2007.

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• Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other, living in peace and harmony.

  Richie Havens

  Love, Spiritual, Peace

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• Let's face it. Rock and Roll is bigger than all of us

  Alan Freed

  Rocks, Faces, Bigger

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• I myself am a product of the 60s; I centered my life around sex, drugs and rock and roll until I hit rock bottom and accepted Jesus as my Savior. My mission today is to go forth and tell people about why I follow Christ and also what the Bible teaches, and part of that teaching is that women and men are meant to be together. However, I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty and like Him, I love all of humanity. We would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other.

  Phil Robertson

  Jesus, Sex, Teaching

  "'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson suspended by A&E". www.foxnews.com. December 19, 2013.

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• I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

  Grace Slick

  Rap, Rocks, People

  "What Grace Slick is doing now". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2009.

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• There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright.

  Ray Davies

  Block, Night, Rocks

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• There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.

  Tom Petty

  Beer, Magic, Use

  Song: Money Becomes King, Album: The Last DJ

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• Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.

  Huey Lewis

  Heart, Boys, Rocks

  Song: The Heart Of Rock and Roll

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• It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.

  Steven Adler

  Rocks, Rockets, Rocket Science

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• I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.

  Ted Nugent

  Rocks, Views, Support

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• Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Rocks, Guitar

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• People don't realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it's hundreds of bottles of champagne flowing and private jets and money. But there's a lot of time when you're traveling - time to think, time to be lonely. Sometimes it gets to you.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Lonely, Thinking, Rocks

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• I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

  Kurt Cobain

  Stars, Rocks, Want

  "Nirvana's Rise To Fame, In Their Own Words" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. September 18, 2011.

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• Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

  Bob Geldof

  Simple, Rocks, People

  1977 In Melody Maker, 27 Aug.

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• I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

  Marisa Miller

  Rocks, Band, Zeppelins

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• He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been in Lou's house in LA with its waterfalls, the pretty girls Lou always had, his car collection out front, and Bennie had looked into his idol's famous face and thought, You're finished. Nostalgia was the end - everyone knew that.

  Jennifer Egan

  Girl, Rocks, Idols

  Jennifer Egan (2011). “A Visit From the Goon Squad”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.

  Michael Moorcock

  Rocks, Edginess, Cups

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• I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration... "Joy and Pain" - sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, in some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some heart. The blues blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. The blues went south to north, got electrified and even sanctified. The blues got mixed up with jazz and gospel and rock and roll.

  Cornel West

  Pain, Moving, Heart

  "Brother West". Book by Cornel West, www.npr.org. 2009.

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