Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 14

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

  George Thorogood

  Sleep, Rocks, Never Sleep

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.

  Marty Liquori

  Running, Rocks, Track

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• Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

  Ralph Ellison

  Music, Rocks, Expression

  "Some Questions and Some Answers", 1958.

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• Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

  Robert Wyatt

  Thinking, Trying, Easy

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• Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

  Mac Davis

  Lying, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Interview with singer/songwriter Mac Davis". Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. May 09, 2015.

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• I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.

  Don Henley

  Cutting, Rocks, Listening

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

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• If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

  Nikki Sixx

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

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• Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

  Charlie Watts

  Taken, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Rocks, Casualties, Knows

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• Christians are a lot like dinosaurs - about to become extinct.

  Marilyn Manson

  Christian, Dinosaurs

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• I wake up: I am mental, I got to bed and I am mental, I am mental within my dreams, I am mental within my normal state, I'm out of my mind.

  Joey Jordison

  Dream, Mind, Normal

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• The only negative thing about murder is that when you kills someone they can no longer suffer

  Varg Vikernes

  Suffering, Negative, Murder

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• I think record companies are criminals.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Thinking, Records, Criminals

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• The only thing I use the Rolling Stone for is toilet paper when I run out.

  Neal Schon

  Running, Paper, Toilets

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• Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should see a shrink. Then she started crying and I started laughing.

  Nikki Sixx

  Girl, Laughing, Cry

  Nikki Sixx (2008). “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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• Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

  Pete Townshend

  Moon, Glasses, Doors

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• When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.

  David Lee Roth

  Sprinkles, Ashes, Dies

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• Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent.

  Kim Fowley

  Reality, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Rock n roll is about drugs.

  Marilyn Manson

  Rocks, Drug

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