Rock And Roll Quotes

• If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

  Kurt Cobain

  Rocks, Jail, Rock N Roll

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• My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die.

  Neil Young

  Rocks, Hey, Dies

  Filmcritica, No. 301-310, 1980.

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• The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

  Frank Zappa

  Business, Rocks, World

  YouTube Chanel "hazzaroonee"/ "frank zappa on london plus uk tv 24.9.84", www.youtube.com. February 24, 2007.

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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: Music for the neck downwards.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Necks

  "Rock & Roll Facts, Figures & Fun". Book by Mike Evans, 2005.

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• My guitar wants to kill your mama.

  Frank Zappa

  Guitar, Want, Mama

  Song: My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama

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• Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

  Paul Simon

  Cutting, Knives, Sorrow

  Song: God Bless The Absentee

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• Rock and roll is my religion.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Religious, Rocks, Religion

  Interview with David Gans, medium.com. January 10, 1982.

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• Rock and roll is here to stay.

  Neil Young

  Rocks, Rock N Roll

  "My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (song) (1978). The last sentence was quoted by singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain in his suicide note, 8 Apr. 1994. See Richard Cumberland 1

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• Peace Love Rock and Roll!!!

  Carrie Underwood

  Rocks, Peace Love

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• Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Rocks, Political

  Interview with Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, March 04, 1966.

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• Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

  Frank Sinatra

  Music, Rocks, Expression

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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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• Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

  Ian Dury

  Sex, Rocks, Drug

  Title of song (1977)

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• Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a nasty horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough.

  John Lennon

  Beautiful, Baby, Children

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• The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Rocks, Cake

  "Out on a Limb". Details Magazine, October 1996.

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• 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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  When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Problem

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• The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Sex, Dope, Rocks

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• Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Bernie Worrell

  Rocks, Fame, Halls

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• 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 N Roll

  Rolling Stone Magazine, December 13, 1990.

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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, Trying

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

  Peter York

  Rocks, World, Hamburgers

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

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