Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 28

• People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.

  Moby

  Rocks, Guitar, People

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• Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did — challenged me to do the same, and so, even when the content was antiwoman, antisexual, in a sense anti­human, the form encouraged my struggle for liberation.

  Ellen Willis

  Struggle, Rocks, Singers

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• I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure.

  Dylan Moran

  Night, Rocks, Feelings

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• I think perhaps I touch on a different passion in people. It’s not simple the passion of rock ‘n’ roll rebellion - it’s more romantic than sexual.

  Steven Morrissey

  Passion, Simple, Thinking

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• You can't stop rock-n-roll!

  Dee Snider

  Rocks

  Twitter post from Sep 21, 2016

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• I don't conduct myself like a rock 'n' roll star in my day-to-day living. Am I a celebrity? Yes. Do people recognize me on the street? Yes, they do. But at the same time, it's not a media center out here. People get used to you.

  Dee Snider

  Stars, Rocks, Media

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.

  John Lennon

  Sex, Rocks

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• If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Music, Sex, Rocks

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• The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Music, Song, Real

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• ...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I figured out early on that you gotta find your own strengths and hone them rather than trying to emulate something that impresses you.

  Paul Banks

  Crush, Writing, Trying

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• My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians.

  Walter Becker

  Player, People, Musician

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• Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.

  Pete Best

  People, Musician, Towns

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• With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

  Lorde

  Thinking, People, Musician

  "Lorde, 16-Year-Old New Zealand Musician, Talks ‘Royals’ Video, Feminism And More" By Noah Michelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2013.

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• You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

  Zakk Wylde

  Real, Guy, Musician

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm doing my job. That's why people come to my music - for some emotional experience or a perspective, either on their own lives, or on the world that they're living in.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Jobs, Writing, Emotional

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  If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

  Keith Richards

  Guitar, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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• When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Growing Up, Guitar, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Music, People

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• I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

  Jimmy Page

  Believe, Unique, Player

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• What I'm doing is keeping the spirit of Rock'N Roll alive. Rock 'n roll is supposed to be fast and loud and its supposed to piss off the older generation.

  Marilyn Manson

  Rocks, Generations, Alive

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• These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

  Nick Lowe

  Rocks, Littles, Hips

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• I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.

  Shelby Lynne

  Stars, Rocks, Wanted

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• I'm more than happy to say that I am a part of the return of Rock n' Roll.And that what we have to say means so much to these amazing people.

  Jinxx

  Mean, Bvb, Rocks

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• There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.

  Dave Grohl

  Kids, Rocks, Band

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• It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)

  Lucinda Williams

  Rocks, Long, Way

  Song: It's A Long Way To The Top, Album: Little Honey, 2008

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