Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 5

• If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Women, Reality

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.59, Vintage

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• Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.

  Frank Sinatra

  People, Negative, Aphrodisiac

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

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• Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Mean, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Rock'n'roll is nothing but Boogie Woogie with stuff on top of it. And if you're black, they name it rhythm'n'blues, and if you're white, they name it rock'n'roll. So, I don't give a... You know.

  Ike Turner

  Rocks, Names, White

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• No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

  Bon Scott

  Song, Rocks, Play

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• You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.

  Dexter Holland

  Average, Years, People

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  I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

  Adele

  Music, Eye, Ears

  "Adele Opens Up About Her Inspirations, Looks and Stage Fright", www.rollingstone.com. April 28, 2011.

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• The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

  Frank Sinatra

  Earth, Faces, Goons

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

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• I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

  Tre Cool

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Drummer

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• I hope I die before I get old.

  Roger Daltrey

  Dies, My Generation

  "Song: "My Generation" ("My Generation")". 1965.

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• Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

  Dave Grohl

  Saws, Importance, Minimalism

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• Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

  Bill Griffith

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, America

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• Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.

  Gregg Allman

  Rocks, Born, South

  "Success, Sorrow and Song: Gregg Allman’s Hard-Lived Life of Rock". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 14, 2012.

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• Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.

  John Belushi

  Army, Rocks, Chicago

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

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• Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.

  Gene Simmons

  Girl, Rocks, Fame

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Sleep, Rocks, Trying

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• Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Smell, Free Jazz

  Song: Be-Bop Tango, 1974

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• The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

  Chad Kroeger

  Rocks, Important, Band

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• All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?

  Janis Joplin

  Girl, Stars, Men

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• The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money, they'll all sound like rock stars.

  Ice T

  Stars, Rocks, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.

  Lola Kirke

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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• Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.

  Bobby Vinton

  Romantic, Song, Rap

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• I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the Johnny Cash Show on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock'n'roll. I watched him and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing, a beautiful, evil thing.

  Nick Cave

  Beautiful, Rocks, Years

  "I saw music could be a beautiful, evil thing, while my parents shifted uncomfortably" by Nick Cave, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2003.

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• Some say it's too country, some say it's too rock n' roll. But it's just good music if you can feel it in your soul.

  Tim McGraw

  Country, Rocks, Soul

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• Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.

  Alan Freed

  Music, Dance, Song

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