Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 16

• The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

  Billy Joel

  Country, Rocks, Blue

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• The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

  Elton John

  Inspirational, Stars, Rocks

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

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• There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced her own music, which let me know that women could write and produce their own music, which was an empowering moment for me.

  Queen Latifah

  Inspiring, Writing, Empowering

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• Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own.

  Cliff Richard

  Careers, America, Rocks

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• I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

  Dave Brubeck

  Able, Has Beens

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• The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock ’n’ roll. But the guitars made sounds guitars didn’t always make. Symphonic sounds. Sacred sounds. The music dug in so deep you didn’t hear it so much as feel it, reminding me of a dream I used to have when I was a kid, where I would be standing on a street corner, I would jump into the air, flap my arms, and soar up into the sky. That’s the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Dream, Writing, Kids

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.86, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

  Charlie Watts

  Taken, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

  Nikki Sixx

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

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• I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.

  Don Henley

  Cutting, Rocks, Listening

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

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• Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

  Mac Davis

  Lying, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Interview with singer/songwriter Mac Davis". Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. May 09, 2015.

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• Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

  Robert Wyatt

  Thinking, Trying, Easy

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• Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

  Ralph Ellison

  Music, Rocks, Expression

  "Some Questions and Some Answers", 1958.

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• Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.

  Marty Liquori

  Running, Rocks, Track

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• Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

  Ray Manzarek

  Rocks, Circus, Today

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• Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.

  Alice Cooper

  Tattoo, Golf, Hair

  "Sometimes, Rules Shouldn't Matter" by Pat Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. February 10, 1996.

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• Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Congratulations, Rocks

  "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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• Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

  Don McLean

  Hippie, Believe, Rocks

  Song: American Pie, Album: American Pie

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• Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

  Aretha Franklin

  Music, Mean, Singers

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• The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

  Robert Plant

  Rocks, Way, Folks

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• I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

  Little Richard

  Music, Rocks, Age

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• Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

  Pete Townshend

  Rocks, Inspirational Music, Doe

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• Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Artist, Media, Color

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

  Thom Yorke

  Stars, Stupid, Drinking

  "I Think I'm Meant to Be Dead". Interview with Lauren Zoric, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2000.

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• Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.

  Lester Bangs

  Beautiful, Rocks, Looks

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• The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Rocks, Band, Thanks

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