Rock And Roll Quotes - Page 8

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.

Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away.

I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.

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

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.

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

Peace Love Rock and Roll!!!

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

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

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

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.

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

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.

Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.

I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever.

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

All rock and roll is homosexual.

The original concept of rock and roll... was supposed to be this young angst with mistakes and all. Four or five guys get together, get angry and that's really how it starts, and it's all this energy.

No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.