Rock N Roll Quotes - Page 3

• Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.

  Greil Marcus

  Fun, Rocks, Ideas

  Greil Marcus (2014). “Mystery Train”, p.104, Faber & Faber

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• Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

  Alex Van Halen

  Thinking, Talking, Mind

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• It just seemed like all the records I have made since Creedence Clearwater Revival have all been sort of pushed off center. I felt like I was dancing around the outskirts of what is my true center. With this album, I really wanted to stay on the mark, right in the middle, right where rock 'n' roll is. I wanted this one to be easier, a lot more fun than some of the past records have been.

  John Fogerty

  Fun, Past, Rocks

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• It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

  Tina Weymouth

  Years, Eight, Rocks

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• Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

  Rick Springfield

  Hours, Music Is

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• We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

  John Lennon

  Music, Jesus, Rocks

  Interview with Maureen Cleave in Evening Standard 4 Mar. 1966. Cf. Zelda Fitzgerald

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• This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!

  David Bowie

  Rocks, Genocide

  "Song: 'Diamond Dogs'". 1974.

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• Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.

  John Lennon

  Rocks, Guitar, Two

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• My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Philosophy, Driving

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• You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors.

  Ray Manzarek

  Rocks, Doors, Watches

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• There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.

  Noel Gallagher

  Writing, Rocks, Tunes

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• I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Stupid, Thinking, Rocks

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• Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Sex, Writing

  "Oasis from the archives: Noel in 1994". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2009.

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• The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.

  Iggy Pop

  Rocks, Justin

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• Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

  Ian Dury

  Sex, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Title of song (1977)

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• People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock 'n roll is on there because it's another mode of expression.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Rocks, Expression, People

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• My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I do call us a rock'n'roll band.

  David First

  Rocks, People, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Rocks

  Mike Douglas Show in 1972. "John Lennon: In His Own Words", Book by Ken Lawrence, p. 107, 2005.

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• Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

  Peter York

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, World

  Peter York (1980). “Style wars”, Sidgwick & Jackson

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• Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

  Nile Rodgers

  Art, Different, Places You Go

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• I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer.

  Axl Rose

  Girl, Beer, Would Be

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• When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

  Angus Young

  Men, Caves, Six

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• Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

  Pablo Casals

  Rocks, Sound, Poison

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• My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

  Carlos Santana

  Dance, Spiritual, Jobs

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• A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that.

  Elvis Presley

  Thinking, Rocks, Long

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