Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 26

• I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Song, Blessed, Writing

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• The original concept of rock and roll... was supposed to be this young angst with mistakes and all. Four or five guys get together, get angry and that's really how it starts, and it's all this energy.

  Peter Frampton

  Mistake, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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

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• I like to think I have quite a few different styles - sometimes it's a bit rock n' roll, other times more girly and feminine.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Girly, Thinking, Rocks

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• Rock n' roll is about attitude and rebellion. It's supposed to be fun and spontaneous.

  Slash

  Fun, Attitude, Rocks

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• I love Chloe Sevigny's style - the way she manages to add a touch of rock n' roll to every look.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Rocks, Style, Add

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• Turn on, tune up, rock out.

  Billy Gibbons

  Rocks, Tunes, Turns

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• I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

  Ace Frehley

  Rocks, Acoustics, Versions

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• I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

  Gary Sinise

  Girl, Kids, Rocks

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• God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.

  Link Wray

  Guitar, Play

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• I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll.

  Carmen Electra

  Sexy, Rocks, President

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• The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

  Robert Plant

  Rocks, Once Upon A Time, Special

  "A little bit country, a little bit rock'n'roll" by Sylvie Simmons, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2008.

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• I love fast cars, loud guns and classic rock 'n' roll, but I'd never do any of it in
  flats. I love me a nice, big uncomfortable pair of heels and some big hair! Maybe
  it's a Southern thing, but I love dressing up. It's everything I can do not to leave
  the house in a goddamn prom dress every day.

  Amber Heard

  Nice, Gun, Hair

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• Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.

  Johnny Ramone

  Hippie, Thinking, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Feb 25, 2015

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• The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today

  Jack White

  Rocks, Years, Band

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• I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Rocks, Wanted

  "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2010.

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• Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

  Elvis Costello

  Past, Rocks, People

  "Elvis Costello: Interview And Music". Interview with Brian Wise, October 4, 2004.

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• As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

  Greg Lake

  Successful, Rocks, Differences

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• Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

  Elvis Costello

  Song, Rocks, Different

  "Interview about The Delivery Man". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.

  Billy Idol

  Real, Ambition, Rocks

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

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• Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n' Roll.

  Eric Burdon

  Silly, Kids, Rocks

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• You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion.

  Scott Weiland

  Fashion, Kids, Rocks

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• I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions.

  Mos Def

  Rocks, Want, Instruction

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.

  Grace Jones

  Rocks, Caught, Overwhelming

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• Most of the EDM tracks right now are not very musical, they have one note that keeps playing. You really don't need to be a musician to do records like this, so I think me playing guitar for so many years and listening to rock 'n' roll and real music helps me when I work with vocalists like Lana Del Ray and Miley Cyrus.

  Cedric Gervais

  Real, Thinking, Rocks

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• Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

  Edward Furlong

  Rocks, Random Things, Detroit

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

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