Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 3

• Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.

  Greil Marcus

  Fun, Rocks, Ideas

  Greil Marcus (2014). “Mystery Train”, p.104, Faber & Faber

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• Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

  Alex Van Halen

  Thinking, Talking, Mind

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• Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

  Rick Springfield

  Hours, Music Is

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• Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.

  Noel Gallagher

  Men, Rocks, Oasis

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• That was always what I felt was the beauty of Rock 'n' Roll, it was entertainment and showbiz yet it had the idea of the voice of the people, it had an essence to it which was socially motivated. Not that I want to change to world, you know? But it was sort of relevant to real life, it involved the real essence of poetry or the real essence of fine art. But it was also entertainment. That was the real vitality.

  Debbie Harry

  Art, Real, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

  John Lennon

  Music, Jesus, Rocks

  Interview with Maureen Cleave in Evening Standard 4 Mar. 1966. Cf. Zelda Fitzgerald

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• My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Philosophy, Driving

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• You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors.

  Ray Manzarek

  Rocks, Doors, Watches

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• I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Stupid, Thinking, Rocks

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• The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.

  Iggy Pop

  Rocks, Justin

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• Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.

  John Lennon

  Rocks, Guitar, Two

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• This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!

  David Bowie

  Rocks, Genocide

  "Song: 'Diamond Dogs'". 1974.

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• Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Sex, Writing

  "Oasis from the archives: Noel in 1994". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2009.

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• There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.

  Noel Gallagher

  Writing, Rocks, Tunes

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• Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

  Ian Dury

  Sex, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Title of song (1977)

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• People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock 'n roll is on there because it's another mode of expression.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Rocks, Expression, People

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• My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I do call us a rock'n'roll band.

  David First

  Rocks, People, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Rocks

  Mike Douglas Show in 1972. "John Lennon: In His Own Words", Book by Ken Lawrence, p. 107, 2005.

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• Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

  Peter York

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, World

  Peter York (1980). “Style wars”, Sidgwick & Jackson

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• Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

  Nile Rodgers

  Art, Different, Places You Go

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• I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer.

  Axl Rose

  Girl, Beer, Would Be

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• When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

  Angus Young

  Men, Caves, Six

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• A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that.

  Elvis Presley

  Thinking, Rocks, Long

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• Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

  Pablo Casals

  Rocks, Sound, Poison

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• My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

  Carlos Santana

  Dance, Spiritual, Jobs

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