Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 4

• There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

  Elmer Bernstein

  Rap, Writing, Rocks

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• Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Rocks, Guy, Mind

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• My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

  Casey Abrams

  Queens, Rocks, Voice

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• I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Rocks, Fame, Accepted

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

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• When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

  Ray Davies

  Rocks, World, Way

  Ray Davies (2000). “Waterloo Sunset: Stories”, Hyperion

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• The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.

  David Amram

  Rocks, Egalitarianism, Ideas

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• When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.

  Bill Haley

  Band, Clock, Slow Down

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• You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Play, Bed, Scream

  Song: Rock and Roll Is Dead

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• I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.

  Todd Rundgren

  Bangs, Want

  Song: Bang The Drum All Day

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• Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

  Suzi Quatro

  Rocks, Play, Jazz

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• That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

  Adam Rich

  Good Friend, Rocks, Play

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• I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

  Haley Reinhart

  Rocks, Soul, Classic

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• I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case.

  Elvis Costello

  Stupid, Glasses, Rocks

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower.

  Jon Stewart

  Two, Rocks, Hands

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• He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

  David Bowie

  Boys, Guitar, Play

  Song: Ziggy Stardust, 1972

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• Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Baby, Joy

  Song: Pipes Of Peace

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• Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

  Bob Seger

  Fashion, Rocks, Soul

  Bob Seger (2010). “Bob Seger - Guitar Chord Songbook”, p.62, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Heart, Play, Heaven

  Song: Nexus, Album: The Innocent Age, 1981

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• I am a D.J., I am what I play.

  David Bowie

  Play

  Song: D.J, Album: Lodger, 1979

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• I bought me a guitar about a year ago, learned how to play in a day or so.

  Bobby Bare

  Guitar, Years, Play

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• Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

  George Harrison

  Stars, Guitar, Play

  Song: Cockamamie Business

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• I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.

  Billy Joel

  Names, Faces, Remember

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• He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

  Chuck Berry

  Writing, Guitar, Play

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• Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, People, Cadillacs

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• Don't tell me baby you gotta go, I got the hifi high and the lights down low.

  Elvis Presley

  Baby, Light, Lows

  Song: I Need Your Love Tonight

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