Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 8

• I saw my rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.

  Jon Landau

  Eye, Past, Night

  "The Real Paper" Newspaper, 1974.

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• When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

  Jon Landau

  Cutting, Rocks, Performing

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• I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Rocks, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really didn't know a lot of rock 'n' roll until I moved to L.A. Before that, when I was in New York, I grew up listening mostly to R&B and soul and jazz.

  Lenny Kravitz

  New York, Rocks, Soul

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I am always the Baywatch girl at heart. The rock 'n' roll got harder and softer but I wouldn't give up those times for anything.

  Pamela Anderson

  Girl, Giving Up, Heart

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in the urban communities, were about the American Dream, and the lack of opportunity in that structure. So they talked about everything - uplifting and getting what is perceived as success in America.

  Russell Simmons

  Uplifting, Dream, Opportunity

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's always been writing for me. I evolved with my band in rock 'n' roll through poetry, not through music.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• NUTHIN' more fun than Rock n' Roll!

  Elvis Presley

  Fun, Rocks

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• I love the classic trucker jacket as an icon of rock 'n' roll and rebellion.

  Shepard Fairey

  Rocks, Icons, Classic

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, Yesterday, Political

  2004 In Rolling Stone , 27 May.

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• I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.

  Elton John

  Writing, Phones, Rocks

  "A Q&A With Elton John". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 16, 2004.

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• What I wanted to do in rock'n'roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, Two, People

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, Rocks, Living On The Edge

  Spin magazine, 1987.

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• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock n roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  Sam Kinison

  Jesus, Rocks, Order

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• I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock'n'roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock'n'roll.

  Gary Glitter

  Thinking, Jail, Rocks

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

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• There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasnt very hip.

  Elvis Costello

  Thinking, Rocks, House

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• As much as I can, as much as I can afford, I keep ticket prices down. Rock 'n' roll was developed as the people's voice, the people's art, it was grassroots. I don't believe that the people should be estranged from their rock stars. They're not kings and queens - all rock stars are those who are able to give back a bit of culture to other people. It's people's heritage.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Queens, Kings

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always write a book, but you can't always do a rock 'n' roll record that's gonna work.

  Patti Smith

  Book, Writing, Rocks

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a strong road crew who are devoted and believe in you and protect you, you're totally naked.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Strong, Believe

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy Super Sport and drive me down along the Ohio River to Cincinnati to hear some rock 'n' roll. Those were exciting times, and the bands would play late into the night, rocking soaked in sweat. When I hear the Ready Stance, these memories come back to me and I remember that Cincinnati has produced so many wonderful musicians. The Ready Stance is among that number. You will be hearing a lot about them in the future.

  Chris Frantz

  Summer, Sports, Cousin

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• The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock 'n roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help.

  John Lennon

  Music, Song, Writing

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• Yeah? Rock 'n' Roll is fast, you know. If all goes according to plan I could be in rehab next thursday. Tuesday week I'll be living on an island with a small Indian boy.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Boys

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• All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Writing, Love Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty- five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?.

  John Hughes

  Rocks, People, Twenties

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• Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

  Russell Simmons

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Lessons

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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