Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 4

• As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.

  David Byrne

  Attitude, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Rolling Stone Magazine, December 13, 1990.

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• No matter what though, there's always rock & roll. There's rock 'n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock & roll in pop music, there's rock 'n' roll in soul, there's rock 'n' roll in country. When you see people dress and their style has an edge to it, that rebellious edge that bubbles up in every genre, that's rock & roll. Everybody still wants to be a rock star.

  John Varvatos

  Country, Stars, Rocks

  "The GQ+A: John Varvatos on His New Book 'John Varvatos: Rock in Fashion'". Interview with Scott Christian, www.gq.com. October 17, 2013.

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• Don't hate the media, become the media.

  Jello Biafra

  Inspirational, Hate, Media

  "Political punk Jello Biafra takes verbal aim". Interview with Phil Cauthon, www2.ljworld.com. April 18, 2003.

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• No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

  Frank Zappa

  Change, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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  It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.

  Freddie Mercury

  Gone, Want, Boring

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• We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music.

  Kurt Cobain

  Sports, Baseball, Team

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• I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.

  Steve Winwood

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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• When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.

  Axl Rose

  Art, Queens, Kids

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• I look around me and I don’t see any rock’n’roll at the moment. Instead it’s all choreography and stylists and wigs and stuff. It’s like they’re afraid to let the music breathe. No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day. We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too. We didn’t have no dancers, we didn’t have no goddamn wigs.

  Ronnie Spector

  Sweet, Rocks, Dancer

  "Ronnie's spectre" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2006.

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• The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mother, Song, Mean

  "Bob Dylan's original manuscript for Like a Rolling Stone's lyrics goes on sale". www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2014.

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• There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

  David Bowie

  Mean, Want, Way

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

  Tom Petty

  Funny Things, People, Way

  "Tom Petty Is Pissed". Rolling Stone interview, October 23, 2002.

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• I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.

  James Ellroy

  Sports, Hate, Thinking

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview by John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

  Keith Richards

  Technology, Rocks, Important

  "Excerpt: New book chronicles Keith Richards". Interview with Chris Spedding, www.usatoday.com. September 9, 2013.

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• In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'

  Joan Jett

  Rocks, Want, Pops

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• Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Fun, Rocks, Rock Music

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

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• You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

  James Daly

  Stars, Technology, Thinking

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• Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

  Neil Young

  Rocks, Sweaters, Parent

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• Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

  Julian Cope

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  "Stone me!". Interview with Jon Savage, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2008.

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• We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

  David Lee Roth

  Self, Four, Habit

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• If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep...An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

  Patti Smith

  Sorry, Regret, Artist

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• And a lot of the technique and the little T-Bone phrases that define his style, Chuck Berry, when he rearranged the beat, they became rock 'n roll guitar licks. So in essence, T-Bone was not only the first electric blues guitar player, but he was the first electric rock 'n roll guitar player, really.

  Duke Robillard

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

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• I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

  Brian May

  Guitar, Achievement, Three

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• I never said I was the King Of Rock'n' Roll. I said simply that I'm the best

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Inspirational, Kings, Rocks

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• I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.

  David Lee Roth

  Years, Guy, Four

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