Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 22

• I discovered rock'n'roll. You could go round Europe in a van with your best mates, drinking beer, smoking dope and screwing chicks.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Drinking, Beer, Dope

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll.

  Don Letts

  Rocks, Years, Six

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• The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.

  Iggy Pop

  Thinking, Ideas, Rocks

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• The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those inspirational factors that drove rock'n'roll, gospel, and blues. I tend not to value a more pop aesthetic.

  DJ Shadow

  Sadness, Rocks, Pops

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had this great rock 'n' roll fund raiser.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Stars, Men, Thinking

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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• The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody in my generation. So how much of a loose cannon am I? But the general public believes that I'm a loose cannon, so let them believe it. I'm not going to correct them.

  Billy Corgan

  Believe, Rocks, Generations

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology.

  Billy Corgan

  Reality, Rocks, Important

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Julieanne Smolinksi has a history in rock journalism and she's a huge rock 'n' roll fan, and she was a huge fan of Ava (Elaine Hendrix) and Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) and of the actresses. I was really lucky to get her, in between seasons on Grace and Frankie.

  Denis Leary

  Rocks, Grace, Fans

  "Denis Leary on ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 and Playing Johnny Rock". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Johnny [Depp] got this rock 'n' roll old soul to him. If I say a song, he goes, 'Oh yeah. I know that song.' A song he shouldn't know, a song that's not his generation at all. So he might as well have been there.

  Alice Cooper

  Song, Rocks, Soul

  "Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp And Friends Write A Musical Toast To Decadence". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

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• Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

  Juliette Lewis

  Rocks, Pedestal, Culture

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

  Michael McKean

  Mistake, Musical, Jazz

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• Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We the real rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1 rock star on the planet.

  Kanye West

  Stars, Real, Rap

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• Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.

  Ice T

  Rap, Rocks, Guitar

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice.

  Gotye

  Voice, Rocks, Stones

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

  Craig Finn

  Rocks, Band, Ridiculous

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.

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• In the rock 'n roll slang world, they're called rock doctors, or rock docs. They would come out to shows and like to hang backstage. You could get a prescription for anything you want from them. They just want to hang out and party. It's crazy because you can get a prescription to anything. It doesn't even matter what kind of doctor they are.

  Reginald Arvizu

  Crazy, Party, Doctors

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Baby, Rocks, Lessons

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Rocks, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)

  Mitch Miller

  Rocks, Disease

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• Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them.

  Bill Haley

  Kids, Rocks, Entertainment

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• Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

  Ronnie Hawkins

  War, Rocks, Two

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• Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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

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• [Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated.

  Van Morrison

  Couple, Cat, Rocks

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

  Van Morrison

  School, Rocks, Daddy

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• We know what we are doing by now.We seem to make an album every 18 months or so and I think every band should do that. We're not writing "Sgt. Pepper" every time; we are writing straight ahead rock n' roll.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Writing, Thinking, Sgt Pepper

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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