Rock And Roll Quotes

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

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.

Rock and roll is about having a good time, so no matter where you are right now blast some music and forget about lifes problems.

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

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

That one record changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it's the most influential record in the history of rock and roll. It affected Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply. Philosophically, other albums may have been more important, like Lennon's first solo album. But sonically, the way the record's constructed, I think Music from Big Pink is fundamental to everything that happened after it.

Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.

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

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

My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes.

What has Rock and Roll ever done for us? Everything.

When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

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.

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.

Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent.

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

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

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.

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.

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

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.

Let's face it. Rock and Roll is bigger than all of us

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 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'.

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

Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves.

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.