Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 13

• From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up rock n' roll characters in a band who each had their own style and personalities. I think by accident I was already becoming a fashion designer.

  Ashley Purdy

  Fashion, Character, Artist

  Source: marleymagazine.com

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• Good fashion for me is like rock ‘n’ roll – there’s always a little rebellion in it.

  Ann Demeulemeester

  Fashion, Rocks, Littles

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• My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

  Sandra Bullock

  Teacher, Growing Up, Voice

  "She's Strong, She's Sexy, She's Sandra Bullock". Interview with Anne Fletcher, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2009.

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• I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.

  Nicolas Cage

  Rocks, Kind, Outlaw

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• Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like.

  David Graeber

  Dream, Song, Sex

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• My granddad was an evangelist, and my grandma, she was as tough as nails. She watched 'American Bandstand' every day when she was in her 80s, 90s. She loved rock music. I never had anyone in my family that was anti-rock n' roll.

  Alice Cooper

  Grandma, Rocks, Nails

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• Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

  Billy Corgan

  Rocks, Years, Rock And Roll

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• People like controversy because that's what sells.

  Miley Cyrus

  People, Controversy, Sells

  "The Real Miley Cyrus". Interview with Amy Larocca, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 6, 2010.

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• I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

  Roger Daltrey

  Believe, Rocks, Illusion

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

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• Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

  Joan Jett

  Music, Rocks, Music Is

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2013

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• Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

  Joan Jett

  Fun, Rocks, People

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• One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock 'n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.

  Joan Jett

  Mistake, Believe, Rocks

  "With her new album and L.A. acclaim, Former Runaway Joan Jett proves she never left". Interview with Evelyn McDonnell, articles.latimes.com. October 26, 2013.

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• I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.

  Joan Jett

  Rocks, Missing, Doe

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• Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white

  Kid Rock

  Rocks, White, Easier

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• The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

  Billy Joel

  Country, Rocks, Blue

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• The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

  Elton John

  Inspirational, Stars, Rocks

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

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• Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.

  Kid Rock

  Rocks, Car, Detroit

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from May 29, 2014

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• The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.

  Russell Simmons

  Pain, Rap, Rocks

  "More Questions with Russell Simmons". content.time.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.

  Grace Slick

  Men, Rocks, Tanks

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• You either evolve or you don't. I don't like old people on a rock n' roll stage. I think they look pathetic, me included. And the fact that I represent an era means I can't just go out there and do all new stuff. They would all say, 'Sing 'White Rabbit,'' and I'd say no? That's rude.

  Grace Slick

  Mean, Thinking, Rocks

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• Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Rocks, Soup

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• When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, People, Wake Up

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• I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really rock 'n' roll — but he's made me a convert. I do go to their concerts whenever we're in the same town and I don't even have to wear earplugs any more, which I did in the beginning.

  Blythe Danner

  Rocks, Fans, Towns

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• Rock 'n' roll never sleeps it just passes out.

  George Thorogood

  Sleep, Rocks, Never Sleep

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• Rock n roll is about drugs.

  Marilyn Manson

  Rocks, Drug

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