Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

  Tanya Tucker

  Country, Rocks, Forever

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• I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

  Bobby Vinton

  Rocks, People, Band

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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 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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• It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that

  Scott Weiland

  Thinking, Rocks, Fans

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• I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.

  Raf Simons

  Rocks, Techno

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• When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.

  Charlie Watts

  Sex, Thinking, Rocks

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• Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.

  Steven Adler

  Rocks, Years, Needs

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• By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Mean, Rocks, I Can

  "DIVA TALK: A Chat with Piazza's Kelli O'Hara Plus News of Menzel, Haran and Lansbury". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 26, 2005.

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• I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

  Dee Snider

  Stars, Rocks, Order

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

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• Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.

  John Lahr

  Summer, Sweet, Heart

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• When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Rocks, Simplicity, Today

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• I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Song, Rocks, Play

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• Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Rocks

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• The original concept of rock and roll... was supposed to be this young angst with mistakes and all. Four or five guys get together, get angry and that's really how it starts, and it's all this energy.

  Peter Frampton

  Mistake, Rocks, Guy

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

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• My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?

  Billy Idol

  Dad, Fun, Rocks

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

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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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• 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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• I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

  Ginger Baker

  Hate, Rocks, Play

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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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• 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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• 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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• I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Kings, Thinking, Rocks

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. August 2, 2015.

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• The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.

  Micky Dolenz

  Golf, Rocks, Organization

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