Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 12

Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

I know my ambitions are big, but you've got to have something after rock and roll.

I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.

Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as well as the other.

I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.

I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.

We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and roll and punk rock - power chords - before we ever thought we would play folk music. So virtuosity was just never in my reach.

It's true that bluegrass is a virtuosic form and asks that of its performer. Old-time music is older rawer and purer. It's less stylized. We don't solo. Well sometimes we do, but it's different it has more to do with rock-and-roll than bluegrass does.

You have to be kind of sensitive to be in rock and roll.

By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.

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

I didn't come here to run for President. I really just came here to play rock and roll.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when I started to listen to music on my own it was around the time of the birth of rock and roll. Shortly thereafter I started to get into more blues and more traditional rootsy American music.

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins.

This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.