Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 9

• Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as well as the other.

  Klaus Nomi

  Rocks, Records, Wells

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• When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.

  Klaus Nomi

  Mother, Kings, Rocks

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• I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.

  Klaus Nomi

  Thinking, Rocks, Bridges

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• Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Thinking, Names

  'Evening Standard' 4 March 1966 (interview with Maureen Cleave).

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• When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.

  John Lennon

  Kids, Rocks, Break Through

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

  John Lennon

  Song, Rocks, America

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

  Neil Young

  Thinking, Rocks, Way

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• I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

  Grace Slick

  Rocks, People, Stage

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• I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

  Ian McLagan

  Mom, Hurt, Dad

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• I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on.

  John Belushi

  Rocks, Gone, May

  Inscription on John Belushi's grave, www.findagrave.com.

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• Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

  Hilary Hahn

  Writing, Rocks, Ears

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Spiritual, Believe, Rocks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Rocks, Dna, Roots

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• It's time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, hypocrisy, and callous indifference to those in need.

  Arianna Huffington

  Sex, Lying, Rocks

  Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.270, Crown

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• When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock and roll was not just entertainment, it was the center of people's lives. When I was young, it was exciting and interesting.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Stars, Kids, Rocks

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• I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always loved music. Started out loving to sing to the standards and songs of the early 50s, then that interest shifted to rock and roll, Motown, folk.

  Timothy B. Schmit

  Song, Father, Rocks

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• It takes a real man to wear silk! There aren't a lot of manly men in rock and roll because it's all about cross-dressing to a degree. You have to be kind of sensitive to be in rock and roll.

  Kemp Muhl

  Real, Men, Rocks

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don't have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Stars, Rocks, Order

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• In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.

  Yahoo Serious

  Rocks, Relativity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For a long time I wasn't listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause me to get sweaty. It would bring back memories I didn't want to know about, or I would get that feeling that I'm not alive 'cause I'm not making it. And if it was good, I hated it 'cause I wasn't doing it. And if it was bad, I was furious 'cause I could've done it better.

  John Lennon

  Music, Memories, Rocks

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• The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in...The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.

  John Lennon

  Music, Ideas, Rocks

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• You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock and roll you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues.

  Jack White

  Rocks, Guitar, Play

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• You can't kill rock and roll without a silver bullet because she's a werewolf.

  Anthony Langston

  Rocks, Drunk, Bullets

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• When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the waltz and foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, nyang umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?

  Julius Nyerere

  Song, School, Rocks

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• There is very little genuine rock and roll out there at the moment - but Steve Conte has hit the nail on the head with this one!

  Steve Lillywhite

  Rocks, Nails, Littles

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