Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 23

• Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Rocks, Long, Musician

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• We are looking at these rock 'n' roll campers, and we know what is going on in their minds because we've been there.

  Rob Halford

  Rocks, Mind, Campers

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Maybe I'm not giving people in the audience enough credit for actually thinking about what they're singing, but it's awesome when a rock'n'roll groove and melody can transport something from Barometer Rising or whatever [ed: it's from 1958's The Watch That Ends the Night] into [Toronto's] Molson Ampitheatre and have people just owning it.

  Sarah Harmer

  Thinking, Night, Rocks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Rock n' roll is over, don't you get it? It lasted 25 years and now gets wiped out. The Sex Pistols were the bullet in the brain. They were the last rock and roll band.

  John Lydon

  Sex, Rocks, Years

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• When I started off in Wales, I sang and accompanied myself with guitar in the '50s. And then I got a band together, which is a rhythm section, really. I used to do a lot of blues, and rhythm and blues, and '50s rock 'n' roll and country, and all kinds of stuff.

  Tom Jones

  Country, Rocks, Guitar

  "What's new, Tom Jones? The hitmaker is still finding more things to sing about". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2016.

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• [Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.

  Van Morrison

  Art, Rocks, House

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• Most of the people who are given these Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them.

  Tommy Ramone

  Rocks, People, Trophies

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

  Lola Kirke

  Boys, Rocks, Work Ethic

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 29, 2016.

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• I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, I Can

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• I wanted to put reality in my photographs. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That's what was happening. And I was going to help make it happen. Boy, they did not want that in America.

  Bob Richardson

  Sex, Boys, Reality

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• There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of Shaking for my money. Or maybe I'm like our parents: that's my period and I dig it and I'll never leave it.

  John Lennon

  Rocks, Parent, Groups

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• I've never stuck around long enough to know if anyone would miss me. That's rock 'n' roll, though. Here today, gone tomorrow.

  Jeff Beck

  Rocks, Long, Missing

  FaceBook post by Jeff Beck from Apr 26, 2017

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• What I can't understand why Blacks can't achieve royal status when it comes to forms that they have largely created? I mean there's a White King of Rock n' Roll, there's a White King of Jazz, how come we can never achieve titles of royalty in these fields we are supposed to prevail in? They held a so called Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the other night, where White judges credit people who resemble them with the invention of Rock and Roll. I didn't even see Blacks in the audience.

  Ishmael Reed

  Kings, Mean, Night

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Hanoi Rocks was our baby and we were the core and we started the band. All those years that went to waste because of that accident, it's only right that we have some kind of advantage because it's our history. The name 'Hanoi Rocks' I think is one of the very best names, if not the best name of all rock n' roll bands.

  Michael Monroe

  Baby, Thinking, Rocks

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• I remember when I was first starting out in the late 50's, and everybody at that time said rock 'n roll was gonna die. I was 15 years old when I started, and I certainly didn't believe that was true. I thought anything that feels this good and makes me want to tap my foot like this can't be a passing fad like everybody says. Of course, they were wrong, and here we are in the 90's and it's alive and well, and getting programmed all over the country, and really all over the world. So it's been a great journey.

  Bobby Vee

  Country, Believe, Journey

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• Who's going to save rock 'n' roll? It's so silly. Remember like in '86 or '87 and synthesizers were going to take over the world? And remember "rocktronica" in 1997? It's ridiculous.

  Matthew Caws

  Silly, Rocks, World

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• I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

  Gary Cherone

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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• Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head.

  Alan Freed

  Rocks, Trends, Fads

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• In this country, particularly, actually in times that are difficult, or from corners of America where you least expect it, unbelievable pure creativity has welled up. Generally because of the cross-fertilization... a Scott Joplin tune becomes jazz, becomes blues, and becomes rock 'n' roll.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Country, Creativity, Rocks

  "Baz Luhrmann examines early hip-hop in Netflix series". Interview with John Carucci, apnews.com. July 29, 2016.

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• Its cool when I meet young guys from other bands who say how much an impact Aerosmith has had on them and how much they like me.I'll give 'em that 'C'mon you don't mean that' routine, but in my heart I know where they're coming from. If I had grown up in the '70's and was into rock n' roll, I know the kind of impact Aerosmith would have had on me. I know the kind of impact that Elvis and Jagger had on me, and while I'm not comparing myself to those guys, I can relate.

  Steven Tyler

  Heart, Mean, Impact

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• Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified. It is attitude. It is all the things that your parents told you not to do. It's the freedom to express yourself. It's being alive. It expresses the times. It's a magazine, a newspaper that tells the truth. If you listen to rap today, it's all about the truth. And that's what we all want. Just give me a little truth.

  Steven Tyler

  Attitude, Rap, Rocks

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• My feelings are, if you're gonna lead a rock n' roll lifestyle, don't let it affect your work. I know I can stay up all night and still come in the next day and write a song, and nothing will stop me from doing it. I expect the same from everyone else.

  Marilyn Manson

  Song, Writing, Night

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• I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.

  Courtney Love

  Rocks, Dying, Intention

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• I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Rocks, Trying, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar and play the chords," just because it's such a lame image. It's not rock'n'roll at all to be sitting behind a guitar.

  Tim Heidecker

  Rocks, Guitar, Play

  "Tim Heidecker Talks Album, Tim & Eric Movie". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 21, 2011.

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