Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 3

• I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Looks, Legends

  "When John Waters met Little Richard". Interview with John Waters, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• How about a cheer for all those bad girls!
  And all those boys that play that rock 'n' roll!
  They love it like you love Jesus.

  Tom Petty

  Girl, Jesus, Cheer

  "Song: 'Have Love, Will Travel'". 2002.

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• It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

  Robert Plant

  Rocks, Beauty And Love, Singers

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• Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

  Billy Corgan

  Rocks, Wells, Artifice

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• It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

  Liz Phair

  Rocks, Blue, Done

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• People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea?
  I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture.

  Thurston Moore

  Thinking, Rocks, Ideas

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• Where would rock and roll be without feedback?

  David Gilmour

  Rocks, Feedback

  "Pink Floyd at Pompeii". Documentary, Music, 1972.

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• I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with.

  Kenny Chesney

  Girl, Rocks, Guy

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• There is very little genuine rock and roll out there at the moment - but Steve Conte has hit the nail on the head with this one!

  Steve Lillywhite

  Rocks, Nails, Littles

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• I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, Years

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• There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Jon Landau

  Summer, Rocks, Doubt

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• Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll.

  Thurston Moore

  Thinking, Rocks, Soul

  "1991: The Year Punk Broke". November 20, 1992.

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• I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Growing Up, Thinking, Rocks

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• They should've built a city on rock and roll.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Cities, Rocks, Should

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.67, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious.

  Penn Jillette

  Country, Religious, Rocks

  "Magician Penn Jillette Says 'God, No!' To Religion". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. August 16, 2011.

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• To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.

  Penn Jillette

  Rocks, America, Car

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

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• You know, I guess there's enough information out there to support that I'm a crazy, wild dude and rock and roll and this, that and the other. And there's enough information to support that, you know, I'm a single father, that, you know, has been a pretty standup guy in his community and pretty private about that stuff. But it's on both sides.

  Kid Rock

  Father, Crazy, Rocks

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. July 6, 2011.

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• So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.

  Cliff Richard

  Christian, Rocks, Banner

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• Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

  Chuck Berry

  Rocks, Hail

  Song: School Days

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• Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar.

  Johnny Thunders

  Attitude, Rocks, Guitar

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• A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

  Joan Jett

  Rocks, People, Musical

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• I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

  Manuel Puig

  Rocks, Literature, Idiot

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• I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

  Grace Slick

  Rocks, Long, People

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• It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Paul Stanley

  Inspiration, Artist, Rocks

  "PAUL STANLEY Slams JANN WENNER For KISS 'Rock Hall' Snub". www.blabbermouth.net. May 20, 2013.

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• The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Paul Stanley

  Rocks, Names, People

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