Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 11

• Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

  Camille Paglia

  Roots, Rocks, Feminist

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• Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

  Joe Perry

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Kind

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• Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Mean, Artist, Rocks

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• In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

  Lou Reed

  Rocks, Perfect, Insanity

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• I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

  John C. Reilly

  Song, Dad, Kids

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• But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Occupation, Singers

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• God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.

  Little Richard

  Men, Rocks, Giving

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• Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.

  Jon Landau

  Art, Men, Rocks

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• I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Names, Saws

  "We Are Alive" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. July 30, 2012.

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• It ended suddenly for Brenda, more slowly for me. My runs began getting shorter and less pleasurable. I'd feel bad after only one day, or only a few hours, instead of four or five days. And I began to want to stop. One of the proudest moments of my life was at a rock-'n'-roll theater in New Jersey. A guy actually put some coke under my nose and I was able to say, "No, thanks," and turn my head away.

  George Carlin

  Running, Rocks, Guy

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Little Richard and Etta James all play the same venues. It was a mix of funk, soul, blues and rock 'n' roll.

  Phil Collen

  Brother, Artist, Rocks

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock 'n' roll? No. I wanted a guitar, but my mother didn't really want me to have one. At some point I played a violin, but I didn't last long at that.

  Mark Alan Stamaty

  Mother, Father, Rocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

  Master P

  Country, Rap, Artist

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Fun, Kids, Ipods

  Source: collider.com

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• When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late 50s, early 60s - it was the beginnings of the rock 'n' roll era. The main drink was like wine. And even that was a romantic throwback to something.

  Van Morrison

  Drinking, Wine, Marijuana

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, Water, Done

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it.

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, Analyzing, Connecting

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, Spirit, Primitive

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what I really dig. And I also dig to sing ballads as well. And I also dig writing my own songs. I was just trying to find a way of integrating the whole thing, taking a look at the total picture.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

  Elton John

  Thinking, Musician, Shows

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• When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

  Elton John

  Rocks, Play, Two

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. 12 November, 2006.

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• This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Sex, Rocks, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.

  B. B. King

  Cds, Long, People

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• I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.

  Adam Lambert

  Thinking, Rocks, Games

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