Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Rock and roll is the new pornography.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Rocks, Pornography

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• I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

  Boz Scaggs

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

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• That one record changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it's the most influential record in the history of rock and roll. It affected Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply. Philosophically, other albums may have been more important, like Lennon's first solo album. But sonically, the way the record's constructed, I think Music from Big Pink is fundamental to everything that happened after it.

  Roger Waters

  Thinking, Sgt Pepper, Rocks

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• People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.

  Steve Marriott

  Ideas, Feet, Rocks

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• The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends with the band. Theyre not really journalists; theyre people who want to be involved in rock and roll.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Motivation, Rocks, People

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• The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ. The two are melded together in ways both unpredictable and unsure.

  Scott Stapp

  Rocks, Two, Together

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• I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll.

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

  Strong, Plato, Rocks

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• In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.

  Yahoo Serious

  Rocks, Relativity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Rocks, Musical, Ensemble

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• I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.

  Debby Boone

  Dad, Wall, Rocks

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• New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.

  Huey Lewis

  Song, New York, Inspiration

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• The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of villages warning of danger, 'When night wolf swallows mother moon, there will be great famine.'

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mother, Night, Moon

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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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• 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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• I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

  Edward Furlong

  Confused, Rocks, Getting High

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

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• Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

  Fats Domino

  New Orleans, Rocks, Rhythm And Blues

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• Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.

  Robbie Robertson

  Kings, Rocks, Soul

  Song: American Roulette, Album: Robbie Robertson, 1987

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• You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.

  Pamela Des Barres

  Nice, Rocks, Lunch

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• Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Men, Rocks, Dating

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• Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.

  Billy Joel

  Art, War, Rocks

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• I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

  David Cassidy

  School, Rocks, Band

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

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• Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

  Neil Young

  Singing, Pepsi, Looks

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