Rock And Roll Quotes

We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension.

Rock and roll is my religion.

When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band.

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.

I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.

I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.

Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand.

Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

Get some sleep and dream of rock and roll.

They should've built a city on rock and roll.

The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones." "That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll.

A lot of [my] songs have a sexuality to them, a vibe to them. ... I call it sexy rock and roll.

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.

The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.

So lots of respect for all you boys and girls out there who tab out songs like all the time. You bring rock and roll music closer to the people. Gratefully yours

I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.

Tonight, it's the rock and roll all night and party every day hall of fame.

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.

There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.

Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.

Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium.

Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you.

In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.

Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.

You can take and nail two sticks together like they've never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

Because some things in life just hurt so much that you need to feel physical pain to start to heal from it.

Don’t beat yourself up, son. I’m sure there is a culture on this spinning ball of dirt where you can be pretty. If not, do rock ‘n roll, or practice words. That shit’s pretty as well.

But as we all know, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever.

The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitar’s strings purred with blues and ended with a haunting solitary song with no lyrics.

The guitar breathed. It inhaled and exhaled, and music filled the shop as the instrument picked the heartbreak of generations.

A real musician ain’t gonna choose his own guitar like an evil master choosing his slave. The guitar will choose his master and when he does, you’ll know it.

When you scratch these guitars, they bleed.

Rock and Roll can never die.

punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am

To understand what's happening in the U.S. presidential election of 2016, you need to know what's going on in the year 2024! Soundscape: Where hearing is believing.

Who am I?" She whispered. Alex opened his mouth as if to correct her, but then he said, "You are my love.

Life will never be perfect, so we must learn how to make the imperfections work for us.

But tonight, this is what I can give you. I can offer you the vault of heaven, the firmament of the stars in the sky, and me

I'm forty-two, " he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years.

You write what you know, and I know rock and roll.

There's something to say about inspiration - when it comes into your life...the feeling is insatiable.

Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.