Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 17

• I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

  Eddie Van Halen

  Rocks, Band, Kick Ass

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• Tonight, it's the rock and roll all night and party every day hall of fame.

  Tom Morello

  Party, Night, Rocks

  "Joan Jett, Kim Gordon, St. Vincent, Lorde Perform With Nirvana Members at Rock Hall Induction Ceremony" by Molly Beauchemin and Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. April 11, 2014.

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• Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

  Scott Weiland

  Music, Growing Up, Rocks

  "Velvet Revolver. Talk about their second album". Clash Music interview, clashmusic.com. September 2, 2007.

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• I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  School, Rocks, Jugs

  "A 'Handsome' Tribute From Loudon Wainwright". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 19, 2009.

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• When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.

  Art Garfunkel

  Home, Rocks, Wire

  "Song Talk Interview". Interview with Paul Zollo, www.artgarfunkel.com. 1990.

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• From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?

  Craig Ferguson

  Rocks, Drug, Moments

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• For us Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is bigger than the music. It is very much an experience that brings a lot of skills and discoveries about yourself together. In that respect, it also enables you to learn that being in a band is a lot tougher than sitting around and playing guitar in your bedroom.

  Rob Halford

  Rocks, Guitar, Discovery

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.

  George Thorogood

  Sleep, Rocks, Never Sleep

  "A conversation with rock legend George Thorogood". Interview with Larry Widen, onmilwaukee.com. May 29, 2015.

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• I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.

  Paul Stanley

  Rocks, Fans, Doe

  "KISS’ Paul Stanley: ‘I Don’t Need The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame’". Interview with Mike Hogan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2013.

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• It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they going to stop playing these three chords?' If you believe you shouldn't play just three chords it's pretty silly on their part. To us, the simpler a song is, the better, 'cause it's more in line with what the person on the street is.

  Angus Young

  Song, Believe, Silly

  Atlanta Gazette Interview, May 1979.

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• In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago, in that eating has become incredibly political. And just as the street has always dictated fashions on music and other things, it’s starting to happen that way in food.

  Jonathan Gold

  Fashion, Thinking, Rocks

  "Street Food Fight" by Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. December 1, 2009.

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• Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.

  Cub Koda

  Artist, Rocks, Voice

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• My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Rocks, Energy

  "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.

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• As soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.

  Slash

  Running, Taken, Rocks

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. February 16, 2011.

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• I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Rocks, Territory

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• Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Shows

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• I have every iPod that's been made ˘ that's how sick I am. I carry anything and everything I possibly would want to listen to. I have a lot of jazz. I adore Ralph Towner, Leo Kottke. I've always been a big Oscar Peterson fan. I've branched out a little bit more in rock-and-roll, but that's maybe because I'm 50 years old and I can now listen to Steely Dan again without shame. I adore the Grateful Dead. Creedence Clearwater Revival. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. All that's been fun to get back into. But I'm no longer interested in the Doobie Brothers.

  Thomas Hampson

  Brother, Fun, Grateful

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• It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

  David Bowie

  Rocks, Bling, Realms

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• For me, when you get to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, there's a side of me that goes, "What does that mean? Are you still relevant after that? Do they put you on the shelf along with the award?" I don't know, but that's the last thing we wanted.

  Mike Dirnt

  Mean, Awards, Rocks

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• [Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco. Most of my stories are tales of anguish, stress and grief.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Falling In Love, Sex, Stress

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• In Australia surfing was for the oiks. It was always rebellious. And sadly it was for a long time a bit unreflective and macho and anti-intellectual. Unlike other sports it was essentially a youth cult, like rock and roll. But like rock and roll its people grew up.

  Tim Winton

  Sports, Australia, Rocks

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in science; and Michelangelo was dabbling in poetry. Both of them were painters and sculptors but they also involved themselves with architecture. I honestly don't know what happened in the '60s and '70s. If you sang rock and roll in America at that time or were involved in expressing yourself through music like that, then many thought you couldn't possibly be an artist. That thinking is archaic.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

  Bob Dylan

  Rocks, Drug, Might

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

  Stevie Wonder

  Song, Make You Smile, Seems

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• There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.

  Tom Petty

  Thinking, Rocks, Make Me Smile

  Song: Dreamville, Album: The Last DJ

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