Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 18

• My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.

  Tim Cahill

  Jobs, Real, Writing

  "Wild Life: An Interview With Tim Cahill". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2005.

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• I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

  Brenda Lee

  Rocks, Foundation, Fame

  Brenda Lee, Robert K. Oermann, Julie Clay (2002). “Little Miss Dynamite: the life and times of Brenda Lee”, Hyperion Books

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• No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it’s good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behaviour, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill.

  Kim Gordon

  Rocks, Tolerance, Might

  "Kim Gordon Details Thurston Moore Split, Trashes Courtney Love, Billy Corgan in Memoir" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. February 3, 2015.

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• Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Song, Couple, Rocks

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• I usually listen to classic rock and roll.

  Caleb Landry Jones

  Rocks, Classic, Classic Rock

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

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• Spread your ear pollution far and wide.

  Billy Squier

  Ears, Pollution, Spread

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• I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

  Edgar Winter

  Thinking, Rocks, Singers

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• The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?

  Billy Joel

  Beer, Men, Piano

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• The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

  Ray Davies

  Lines, Corporations, Musician

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• I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

  Robert Quine

  Rocks, Transformed

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• There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.

  John Mellencamp

  Men, Hair, Rocks

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• You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Song, Gay, Guitar

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

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• Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

  Big Pun

  Violence

  Song: Parental Discretion, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998

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• This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.

  George Harrison

  Song, White, Black

  Song: This Song

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• Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.

  Emir Kusturica

  Basketball, Beautiful, Country

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• Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

  Krist Novoselic

  Song, Player, Rocks

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• Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

  Jerry Reed

  Men, Fire, Guitar

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• This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.

  John Mellencamp

  Sex, Rocks, Serious Business

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• The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Dream, Song, Drawing

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• This album was designed to touch your soul.

  R. Kelly

  Soul, Albums, Your Soul

  Song: Weatherman, Album: Happy People / U Saved Me

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• I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

  Manuel Puig

  Rocks, Names, Literature

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• I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

  Steve Perry

  Rocks, Ego, Fans

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

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• The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

  Joni Mitchell

  Trying, Ems, Band

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• Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

  Lou Reed

  Guitar, Tongue, Common

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.408, Da Capo Press

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• Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.

  Mariah Carey

  Tears, Trying, Relief

  Song: Crybaby, Album: Rainbow, 1999

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