Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 5

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

Shall I tell you what rock and roll is, Johnno, from someone who doesn't perform, but observes? It's restless and rude. It's defiant and daring. It's a fist shaken at age. It's a voice that often screams out questions because the answers are always changing. The very young play it because they're searching for some way to express their anger or joy, their confusion and their dreams. Once in a while, and only once in a while, someone comes along who truly understands, who has the gift to transfer all those needs and emotions into music.

I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.

The Beatles did everything long before anyone else. They weren't afraid to try things and to experiment with a lot of sounds. In 200 years, when you look up 'rock and roll' in the dictionary, it'll have a picture of the Beatles next to it.

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

What are you gonna fill your life up with when you don't have that ultimate satisfaction or peace in your life? You try to fill it up with wealth, pleasure, honor, power, sex, drugs and Rock and Roll to try to feel good.

You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.

I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.

When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.

What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.

I still believe in rock and roll, it pays my bills.

I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.

A lot of festivals can be a jumble of electronic music and rock and roll, and everything's all mixed up - some things are more performance art or light shows or dance parties, and then you'll have a singer-songwriter stuck in the middle to make the changeovers easier.

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.

Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse.

Some days I pray to the God of sex and drums and rock and roll.

Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

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.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.