Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 18

• All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.

  Bon Scott

  Song, Sex, Rocks

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• Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing... or producing.

  Andrew Taylor

  Writing, Rocks, Challenges

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• Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?

  Bon Scott

  Rocks, Today, Grows

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• The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.

  Matt Groening

  Rocks, Ugly, Freak

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• Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

  B. B. King

  Music, Son, Men

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• Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.

  Steven Tyler

  Sex, Rocks, Two

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• Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Rock And Roll, Rocks, Generations

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

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• Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Play, African American

  "SPIN" Magazine, (p. 30), December 1990.

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• I did like hanging out with all the rock'n'roll boys - it was fun but all those relationships didn't work out.

  Denise Van Outen

  Fun, Boys, Rocks

  "Denise Van Outen interview: I wanted to be a young mum but it wasn't to be". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 1, 2011.

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• I went from people just thinking I was, like, a baby to people thinking I’m this, like, sex freak that really just pops molly and does lines all day. It’s like, 'Has anyone ever heard of rock 'n' roll?' There’s a sex scene in pretty much every single movie, and they go, 'Well, that’s a character.' Well, that’s a character. I don’t really dress as a teddy bear and, like, twerk on Robin Thicke, you know?

  Miley Cyrus

  Baby, Sex, Character

  "Miley Cyrus on Her Jump to Sexy Twerker". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. December 26, 2013.

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• Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.

  Trey Anastasio

  Air, Joy, Feelings

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• Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

  Bono

  Kissing, Past, Ducks

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• The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

  Fiona Apple

  Way, True And False, Music Is

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• I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Style, Would Be, Want

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• I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

  Dick Clark

  Trends, Novelty, Exploits

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

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• I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

  Adam Clayton

  Men, Thinking, Games

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

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• My granddad was an evangelist, and my grandma, she was as tough as nails. She watched 'American Bandstand' every day when she was in her 80s, 90s. She loved rock music. I never had anyone in my family that was anti-rock n' roll.

  Alice Cooper

  Grandma, Rocks, Nails

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• Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

  Billy Corgan

  Rocks, Years, Rock And Roll

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• People like controversy because that's what sells.

  Miley Cyrus

  People, Controversy, Sells

  "The Real Miley Cyrus". Interview with Amy Larocca, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 6, 2010.

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• The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

  Bono

  Ghetto, Rocks, Self

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• I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

  Roger Daltrey

  Believe, Rocks, Illusion

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

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• Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Trying, Architecture

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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...Plus, being married and monogamous, it's the closest thing I can do to having sex without getting in trouble for it...The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Sex, Years, Rocks

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• I contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears … I'm a gut pile addict … The pig didn't know I was there … it's my kick … I love shafting animals … it's rock 'n' roll power.

  Ted Nugent

  Winter, Animal, Rocks

  "Never a dull moment with the Nugent" by Dan Craft, www.pantagraph.com. August 2, 2007.

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• In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Artist, Rocks, Ideas

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