Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 24

• 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 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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• Scary rock n' roll bands had all the devilish imagery. But at the same time, it's not because they were devil worshippers, they were saying that society is run by devils. It was human society that created these things, they become the devils. This is what you worship. This money is what you worship. This idea is what you worship.

  Immortal Technique

  Running, Rocks, Ideas

  Source: readersupportednews.org

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• It's hard for me to play seated theaters because people tend to sit down and get a little bit complacent, so it's less energy. It's just very dry and dead. People start to feel like they're watching a movie. The environment when they walk into it, it's not standing room only, smoking and drinking and rock 'n' roll. So it's a little bit dangerous to do that.

  Jack White

  Drinking, Play, Rocks

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• It don't spit or swear or sleep around. I've always maintained I'm the most radical rock'n'roll singer Britain has ever seen.

  Cliff Richard

  Sleep, Rocks, Singers

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• Be who you want to be and not care about what others think." -Andy Sixx
  Rock n roll isn't meant to be taken so seriously, I think sometimes people forget it's meant to be fun. A rock show is meant to be a time for people to have fun and let go of the drudgeries of life.

  Andy Biersack

  Letting Go, Fun, Taken

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• I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.

  Teddy Thompson

  Country, Brother, Rocks

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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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• Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

  Jon Anderson

  Rocks, Long, Band

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• That was exactly why people didn't want to give us any kind of life, because we were threatening their status quo, and they just didn't want to have room for girls playing rock 'n' roll. It bothered them. First, people just tried to get around it by saying, "Oh, wow, isn't that cute? Girls playing rock 'n' roll!," and when we said, "Yeah, right, this isn't a phase; it's what we want to do with our lives," it became, "Oh! You must be a bunch of sluts. You dykes, you whores." That's what it became. Then it became a name-calling contest.

  Joan Jett

  Cute, Girl, Names

  The Onion Interview, www.avclub.com. February 25, 1998.

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• From the age of 14, 13, I guess I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. And that was it. I wanted to make a living playing rock 'n' roll, and it was a ridiculously impossible dream at that time. But it was kind of all I ever wanted to do. It's nice to do it.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Dream, Stars, Nice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think it's important that all 50 years of rock 'n' roll live in the same place, because it's all connected.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Thinking, Rocks, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• Wherever there are rock n rollers, well play. Thats what weve been doing for more than 30 years - rock n roll. Its made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

  Ronnie Hawkins

  Rocks, Motorcycle Gangs, Years

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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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• I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues - the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Guitar, Hands

  "The Guitar Handbook". Book by Alastair M. Crawford, Isaac Guillory, and Ralph Denyer, 1982.

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• And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.

  Iggy Pop

  Fashion, Rocks, Style

  "When you hear what Iggy Pop told CBC in 1977, it's no wonder he's still rocking today" by Leah Collins, www.cbc.ca. March 11, 2016.

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• It means rock'n'roll in the sack. It means sex: the lyrics, the beat of it, the thunderous feeling through your body. Before the word groupie even existed I knew that I wanted to share myself with someone who created that music and turned me on in every kind of way.

  Pamela Des Barres

  Sex, Mean, Rocks

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• By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.

  Robbie Robertson

  Rocks, Play, Ontario

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• All rock n roll is homosexual.

  Richey Edwards

  Rocks, Homosexual

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• I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die.

  GG Allin

  Rocks, Law, Trying

  "Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies". Documentary, Biography, Music, 1993.

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• Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.

  Frank Zappa

  Rocks, Musician, Classical Music

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• I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.

  George Harrison

  Ambition, Kids, Rocks

  Interview with Selina Scott on West 57th Street, December 12, 1987.

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