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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards. -- Keith Richards
I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music. -- Billy Corgan
It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me. -- Chuck Berry
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. -- Salman Rushdie
Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America. -- Paul Stanley
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.' -- Elvis Presley
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. -- Dave Grohl
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. -- Klaus Nomi
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 -- Thurston Moore
My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage. -- Al Kooper
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. -- Ronnie James Dio
My dad supports me. He said, "I wished when I was at your age I started doing rock and roll music. Then I wouldn't have to be a fashion designer." And I just laugh and keep it moving and appreciate his support. -- Richard Hilfiger
It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll) -- Mitch Miller
Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty. -- Suzi Quatro
Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off. -- Joan Jett
Rock n Roll is music from the neck down. -- Keith Richards
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll. -- Bill Wyman
My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music. -- Patti Smith
The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music. -- Robert Plant
This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together. -- Cass McCombs
I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll. -- Roger Glover
Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you. -- Lester Bangs
Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music. -- Steve Winwood
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Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul? -- Don McLean
I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music! -- Homer
Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music. -- Debbie Harry
Rock & roll is dying. Itâ??s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now. -- Kurt Cobain
I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. -- Tom Stoppard
We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time. -- Bobby Keys
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. -- Frank Zappa
You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless. -- Smokey Robinson
I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well. -- Haley Reinhart
I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll. -- Joe Walsh
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it. -- Neil Young
The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe. -- Bruce Springsteen
My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores. -- Larry Norman
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant. -- Ani DiFranco
Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music. -- Noel Gallagher
I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll. -- E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story. -- Kate Smith
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot. -- Manuel Puig
Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me." -- Billy Joel
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto. -- Bono
Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh. -- Greg Behrendt
Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar. -- Dave Edmunds
This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll. -- Eddie Vedder
What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop. -- Bob Dylan
I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music. -- Graham Nash
There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write. -- Noel Gallagher
I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing. -- Lenny Kravitz
Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is. -- Julian Cope
Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head. -- Alan Freed
The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up. -- Jimmy Page
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. -- Ralph Ellison
All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll? -- Ty Segall
I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll. -- Bobby Keys
Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n' roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties. -- Thomas Bangalter
Rock has always been THE DEVIL'S MUSIC . . . I believe rock and roll is dangerous . . . I feel we're only heralding SOMETHING EVEN DARKER THAN OURSELVES. -- David Bowie
I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys. -- Lola Kirke
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. -- Adrian Mitchell
I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game. -- Adam Lambert
I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV. -- Dan Fogelberg
There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music. -- Miranda Lambert
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. -- Andy Biersack
Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes. -- Noel Gallagher
Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth. -- Frank Sinatra
Some say it's too country, some say it's too rock n' roll. But it's just good music if you can feel it in your soul. -- Tim McGraw
The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business. -- Stevie Nicks
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. -- Fats Domino
Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted. -- Gail Ann Dorsey
Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By... -- Randall Jarrell
Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll. -- Gail Zappa
I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs. -- Joan Jett
I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music. -- Steve Winwood
I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world. -- Ato Essandoh
'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music. -- Bruno Mars
Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music. -- Bruno Mars
Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard. -- Alex Winston
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. -- Keith Richards
In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.' -- Joan Jett
When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old. -- Jon Landau
Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing... or producing. -- Andrew Taylor
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. -- Ted Nugent
I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started. -- John Oates
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. -- Bobby Vinton
If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock 'n' roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel. -- Buddy Holly
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. -- Willie Nelson
I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen. -- Moira Kelly
The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock n' roll from a medium that was about cars and girls and gave it context, interesting chord changes and true musicianship. -- Bob Spitz
The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful. -- Nick Cave
Bringing people together is one of my favorite things... I believed that's what a rock 'n' roll Jesus would really do - bring people together through music. -- Kid Rock

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