Rock And Roll Quotations | Page 2

Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.

To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.

Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.

I usually listen to classic rock and roll.

I sold my soul to rock and roll.

Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

Well all of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks, get into your kicks. Come back baby, rock and roll never forgets.

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

All she wanted was sax.

I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.

I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.

She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.

The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?

We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.

I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-and I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: 'Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.' Whoooooo! It's life. That's what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.

I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

I think as a music listener you have your rock and roll dreams. I personally wouldn't want to apply that necessarily, mainly because I love music too much to mess it up.

When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.

If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for.

I worked as a roadie in the rock and roll business which was great fun. Very little money, very little food and the whole thing about the roadie's lifestyle is great because all the groupies have to go through the roadies to get to the rock stars. It's not necessarily true.

When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.

I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

I am a D.J., I am what I play.

Rock has always been THE DEVIL'S MUSIC . . . I believe rock and roll is dangerous . . . I feel we're only heralding SOMETHING EVEN DARKER THAN OURSELVES.

I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

Peace Love Rock and Roll!!!

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.

I like all like classic rock bands like The Beatles and The Who and stuff and Led Zeppelin so I kinda dress like that. Kinda retro I guess. Well not retro but, like tight. I don't know. Like just jeans and shirts. I don't know. Kinda rock and roll I guess.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.

He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old,

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you.

Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.

African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll.

I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there.

Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.

As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band.

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case.

Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.

Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake there shackle.

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

My guitar wants to kill your mama.

Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.

These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.

Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.

This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.

Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.

Enjoy music. Not the kind that rocks and rolls, but the music of the masters, the music that has lived through the centuries, the music that has lifted people. If you do not have a taste for it, listen to it thoughtfully. If you do not like it the first time, listen to it again and keep listening.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio.

You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock and roll you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues.

Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is all my brain and body need. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is very good indeed.

Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.

My body is the rock and roll temple and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people whether they like it or not

Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong, so I'll have to say I love you in a song.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

I thought rock and roll was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expression of rebellion. It used to be one channel you could take without ever havin' to kiss arse, you know?

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it’s good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behaviour, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill.