Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 25

• That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Turner, Tempo

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• Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"

  Michael Richards

  Teacher, Exercise, Rocks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• This year's Hippiefest tour is truly a 'Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour' - a landmark, historic, musical celebration of which my band and I are proud to be a part. It's going to be a Guitar Guru Gala of Gargantuan proportions. For me personally, it will simply be the Greatest! So, see you at one of the dates on the tour. Believe me, this is not one you want to miss. All I can say is Get Ready To Rock'n'Roll!!!

  Edgar Winter

  Believe, Rocks, Guitar

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• I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.

  Rodney Atkins

  Rocks, Singing, Crowds

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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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• It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift.

  Jimmy Wales

  Rocks, People, Wikipedia

  "Wikipedia founder gazes into site's future". Computerworld, August 18, 2006.

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• When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock 'n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.

  Aaron Dontez Yates

  Uncles, Growing Up, Rocks

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.

  Ezra Furman

  Rocks, Culture, Corporate

  "Playground for the Perplexed". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2015.

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• I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.

  Nina Blackwood

  Rocks, Littles, Backseat Drivers

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• I like to think I have quite a few different styles - sometimes it's a bit rock n' roll, other times more girly and feminine.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Girly, Thinking, Rocks

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• I love Chloe Sevigny's style - the way she manages to add a touch of rock n' roll to every look.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Rocks, Style, Add

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• Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

  Dan Auerbach

  Mean, Past, Thinking

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• Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.

  Gary Cherone

  Rocks

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• I'm not really this rock'n'roll chick.

  Tia Carrere

  Rocks, Chicks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.

  Evan Dando

  Fun, Thinking, Rocks

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• I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Rocks, Wanted

  "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2010.

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• I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.

  Jorja Fox

  Rocks, Play, Band

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.

  Donald Byrd

  School, Cat, Rocks

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