Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 16

• I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

  Glenn Frey

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is on the way out. What we have instead is a small island of new free music surrounded by some good reworkings of past idioms and a vast sargasso sea of absolute garbage.

  Lester Bangs

  Real, Past, Islands

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.74, Anchor

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• Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

  Lester Bangs

  Rocks, Knows

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• Good rock 'n' roll is something that makes you feel alive. It's something that's human, and I think that most music today isn't. ... To me good rock 'n' roll also encompasses other things, like Hank Williams and Charlie Mingus and a lot of things that aren't strictly defined as rock 'n' roll. Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock 'n' roll, or a movie can be rock 'n' roll. It's a way of living your life.

  Lester Bangs

  Attitude, Writing, Thinking

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• I contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears … I'm a gut pile addict … The pig didn't know I was there … it's my kick … I love shafting animals … it's rock 'n' roll power.

  Ted Nugent

  Winter, Animal, Rocks

  "Never a dull moment with the Nugent" by Dan Craft, www.pantagraph.com. August 2, 2007.

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• In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Artist, Rocks, Ideas

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• I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.

  Juice Newton

  Rocks, Swings, Stuff

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• There's a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it's in your pocket. It's the feeling behind the rhythm to me, the hardest thing to strive for is that feeling, behind the groove.

  Max Weinberg

  Music, Feelings, Pockets

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• My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

  Bela Fleck

  Memories, Powerful, Years

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

  Kid Rock

  Rocks, White, Easier

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• I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.

  Ben Harper

  Rocks, Age, Refuse

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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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• I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Relationship, Rocks, Use

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• Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward. I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of cigarette packs, sometimes on my shirt cuff. Rock n’ roll is closest thing I’ve got to a spiritual power. It’s been the higher voice in my life and it’s never let me down.

  John Waite

  Spiritual, Song, Moving

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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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• I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.

  John Dykstra

  Photography, Airplane, College

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• As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

  Taylor Hanson

  Art, Fire, Rocks

  "Taylor Hanson Loves Tulsa". Taylor Hanson's love letter to Tulsa, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Rocks, Candidates

  "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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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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• I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

  Paul Westerberg

  Rocks, Glowing, Forever

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• This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress.

  Hayley Williams

  Growing Up, Life Lesson, Dresses

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• Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.

  Jim DeRogatis

  Rocks, Nostalgia, Talent

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• Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.

  Ronnie Spector

  Stars, Real, Rocks

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• I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, Music Industry, Irish Music

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• Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

  Phil Knight

  Sports, Rocks, Emotion

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