Rock And Roll Quotes

My guitar wants to kill your mama.

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

My encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll is a millstone around my neck.

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.

I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

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

My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It takes a real man to wear silk! There aren't a lot of manly men in rock and roll because it's all about cross-dressing to a degree. You have to be kind of sensitive to be in rock and roll.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

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.

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

For me, it's more about keeping it simple with a rock and roll edge. It's all about accessorising.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Rock and roll is commitment. Rock and roll is passion and spirit.

We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.

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

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.

I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.

My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.