Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 5

• I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.

  Connie Britton

  Country, Rocks, Virginia

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

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• If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll

  Steven Adler

  Rocks, Eagles, Police

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• A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.

  Wes Montgomery

  Cutting, Rocks, Guitar

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• So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll

  Gavin DeGraw

  Rocks, Play, Piano

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• I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got to give the band something to use its imagination on as well. That can make a very ordinary song come alive into something totally different ... the X-factor - so important in rock and roll - which is the feel.

  Keith Richards

  Music, Song, Rocks

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• And what happened was, it's the same thing an older, more successful writer of ficition might say to a student: write about what you know. And what I knew - of course I knew jazz, but I also knew country, blues and some rock and roll. And that came out.

  Larry Coryell

  Music, Country, Writing

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• ... I think the idea of crossing over is the ultimate expression of being ... Maybe it's time to play rock and roll on disco ... maybe it's time to play heavy metal on R & B, things like that. Certainly culminating on things like Aerosmith doing the rap thing with Run DMC, which if they hadn't done that, or if Eddie hadn't played with Michael Jackson, or if I hadn't done "Hot Stuff", people would have said "You can't do that"

  Jeff Baxter

  Music, Running, Rap

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• Berry's On Top is probably my favorite record of all time; it defines rock and roll. A lot of people have done Chuck Berry songs, but to get that feel is really hard. It's the rock and roll thing-the push-pull and the rhythm of it.

  Joe Perry

  Song, Rocks, People

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• The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

  Pete Townshend

  Writing, Rocks, Swag

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• Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.

  Billy Corgan

  Live Life, Rocks, People

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• I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

  Graham Nash

  Mean, First Love, Love Is

  "The Eye of the Acoustic Storm". The Acoustic Storm Interview, www.acousticstorm.com.

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• I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

  Rosemary Clooney

  Rocks, Stuff, Lasts

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• But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

  James Young

  Music, Rocks, Fans

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• We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.

  Minnie Pearl

  Pregnancy, Boys, Men

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• I just love to play rock and roll. I love to write songs all the time
  about what's up on these streets. I write songs about people getting killed; I write songs about people getting beaten up; I write songsabout people getting taken to jail by the police; and I also write songs about love and happiness.

  Wesley Willis

  Song, Taken, Writing

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• What has Rock and Roll ever done for us? Everything.

  Stevie Nicks

  Rocks, Done

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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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• You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody

  Trey Parker

  Baseball, Stars, Crazy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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