Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 10

• I was pissed off about a lot of things...so much shitty rock ’n’ roll that angered me, and Pussy Galore was kicking against that. With the Blues Explosion, there was some of that, but now I was into celebrating it.

  Jon Spencer

  Rocks, Pussy, Pissed Off

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• If it weren't for rock'n'roll, I wouldn't be a designer

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Rocks, Designer, Ifs

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• I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.

  Keith Richards

  Art, Thinking, Rocks

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• The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

  Robert Morgan

  Rocks, Mtv, Rock And Roll

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• James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because these were the guys who really got rock'n'roll going. I like to start with the origin of things, because once it gets along it changes. It's so interesting to see how it really was in the beginning.

  Michael Jackson

  Music, Strong, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 29, 2013

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• I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, Rocks, Play

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• You know, your clothes may say disco, but your eyes say rock n roll.

  Giuseppe Andrews

  Eye, Rocks, Clothes

  "Detroit Rock City". Carl V. Dupré, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I never considered myself part of rock 'n' roll. My stuff was more adult. It was more difficult for teenagers to relate to; my stuff was filled with more despair than anything you'd associate with rock 'n' roll. Since I couldn't see people dancing, I didn't write jitterbugs or twists. I wrote rhythms that moved me. My style requires pure heart singing.

  Ray Charles

  Teenager, Writing, Heart

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

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• Im also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.

  Bill Mumy

  Artist, Rocks, Two

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• Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen

  Doc Watson

  Being Yourself, Trying, Ems

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• To all who pass that they may see, Rock 'N' Roll was a part of me.

  Nik Cohn

  Rocks, May

  Nik Cohn (1971). “Arfur: teenage pinball queen: a novel”

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• I'm spoiled - in all ways. I've been in a rock 'n' roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different.

  Peter Noone

  Rocks, Trying, Different

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• Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Fun, Rocks, Dangerous

  Acceptance speech at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards, February 13, 2005.

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• I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

  Johnny Winter

  Learning, Guitar, Years

  Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.

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• Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.

  Johnny Ramone

  Rocks, White, Influence

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• I don't know what you wanna describe as Rock 'n' Roll, but I certainly thought that 60s stuff, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, changed the world a little bit. But the effect seems to have retreated. I think it's harder than we think to change the world. These things go in cycles. It doesn't seem to have done an awful lot of good, does it? You know, all the talk of racial harmony and equality in the world... we haven't got a long way since the 60s.

  David Gilmour

  Thinking, Rocks, Long

  Source: www.pinkfloydonline.com

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• The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Idols, Doe

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• I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Honesty, Believe

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• I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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• People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

  John Mayer

  Real, Heart, People

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• She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.

  Paul McCartney

  Queens, Rocks, Reign

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• Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

  Joni Mitchell

  Rocks, Play, Hollies

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• You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

  Joni Mitchell

  Mean, Rocks, Sight

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• I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

  Keith Moon

  People, Drummer

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• I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

  Jimmy Page

  Thinking, Roots, Musician

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