Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 23

• Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.

  Ice T

  Rap, Rocks, Guitar

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We the real rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1 rock star on the planet.

  Kanye West

  Stars, Real, Rap

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• Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

  Michael McKean

  Mistake, Musical, Jazz

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• Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had this great rock 'n' roll fund raiser.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Stars, Men, Thinking

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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• That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology.

  Billy Corgan

  Reality, Rocks, Important

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

  Juliette Lewis

  Rocks, Pedestal, Culture

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Johnny [Depp] got this rock 'n' roll old soul to him. If I say a song, he goes, 'Oh yeah. I know that song.' A song he shouldn't know, a song that's not his generation at all. So he might as well have been there.

  Alice Cooper

  Song, Rocks, Soul

  "Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp And Friends Write A Musical Toast To Decadence". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

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• Julieanne Smolinksi has a history in rock journalism and she's a huge rock 'n' roll fan, and she was a huge fan of Ava (Elaine Hendrix) and Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) and of the actresses. I was really lucky to get her, in between seasons on Grace and Frankie.

  Denis Leary

  Rocks, Grace, Fans

  "Denis Leary on ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 and Playing Johnny Rock". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2016.

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• It's interesting that music in this country... we sort of sold something to America with The Beatles and they sold something back. And we've never been afraid to embrace American style rock 'n' roll and make it our own over here.

  Ricky Gervais

  Country, Rocks, America

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.

  Dave Grohl

  Stars, Hate, Artist

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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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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• Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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

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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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• [Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated.

  Van Morrison

  Couple, Cat, Rocks

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

  Van Morrison

  School, Rocks, Daddy

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• We know what we are doing by now.We seem to make an album every 18 months or so and I think every band should do that. We're not writing "Sgt. Pepper" every time; we are writing straight ahead rock n' roll.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Writing, Thinking, Sgt Pepper

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• 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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• 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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• I came upon a child of god, He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me: "I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band I'm going to camp out on the land, I'm going to try an' get my soul free.

  Joni Mitchell

  Children, Land, Rocks

  Joni Mitchell (2009). “Joni Mitchell: Hits: Piano/Vocal/Chords”, p.2, Alfred Music

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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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• Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn't like it.

  Robert Plant

  Rocks, Bigs, Deals

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• I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Thinking, Rocks

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it.

  Tobin Bell

  Rocks, Play, Want

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