Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 2

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.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

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

I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.

Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

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.

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.

Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

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

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

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

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'.