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Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy. -- Gary Cherone
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. -- Frank Sinatra
As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference. -- Greg Lake
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture. -- Etta James
Music is my religion. -- Jimi Hendrix
Rock and roll is here to stay. -- Neil Young
Music is the soundtrack of your life. -- Dick Clark
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't. -- Johnny Depp
If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! -- Kurt Cobain
A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children. -- Ian Anderson
I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year. -- David Lee Roth
I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass. -- David Lee Roth
One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue. -- James Hetfield
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers. -- Bruce Dickinson
Just because I cut the heads off dolls doesn't mean I hate babies, I just hate dolls. -- Alice Cooper
We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. -- John Lennon
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. -- Frank Zappa
You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years. -- Dexter Holland
Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal. -- Malcolm Mclaren
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
My son Jack just got out of rehab, he's 17 years old and he got hooked on Oxycontin and I'm just a little pissed off that he never gave me a few. -- Ozzy Osbourne
It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw. -- Tina Weymouth
I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight. -- Johnny Cash
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers. -- Billy Joel
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation. -- Greil Marcus
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. -- David Byrne
Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights. -- Haruki Murakami
Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening. -- Tina Charles
I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins. -- Kesha
I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun. -- Joey Ramone
I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll. -- Cara Delevingne
I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. -- John Lennon
Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating. -- Warren Zevon
I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B. -- John Oates
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
The guy who could be me, but he knows when to draw the line, is John Cena. John Cena can rock 'n' roll, let me tell you. -- Ric Flair
There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll. -- Dave Grohl
This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery. -- Keith Richards
After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower. -- Nancy Sinatra
What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. -- Patti Smith
I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it. -- Vince Neil
She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles. -- Paul McCartney
Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything. -- Quincy Jones
If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.' -- Henry Rollins
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music. -- Bobby Vinton
The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It's about rebellion, it's about the growth of the British entertainment system, the growth of the rock n' roll entertainment system. -- Bob Spitz
Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.' -- David Chase
Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play. -- Sam Barry
I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm into rock n' roll, like Jimi Hendrix. Not so much because of my parents, who used to play a lot of Nina Simone and older blues, but my brother and sister. -- Georgia May Jagger
You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere. -- David Edwards
There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock n' roll in soul, there's rock n' roll in country. When you see people dress, and their style has an edge to it, that rebellious edge that bubbles up in every genre, that's rock n' roll. Everybody still wants to be a rock star, you know? -- John Varvatos
My God is rock'n'roll. -- Lou Reed
Rock'n'roll saved my soul. -- Thurston Moore
You can't stop rock-n-roll! -- Dee Snider
Rock n roll is about drugs. -- Marilyn Manson
Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it. -- Bret Easton Ellis
I always loved rock 'n' roll. -- Tom Stoppard
All rock n roll is homosexual. -- Richey Edwards
Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified, -- Steven Tyler
I'm not really this rock'n'roll chick. -- Tia Carrere
NUTHIN' more fun than Rock n' Roll! -- Elvis Presley
Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today. -- Ray Manzarek
I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action. -- Mick Ralphs
Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll. -- Ken Bruen
Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria. -- Vance Packard
I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star. -- Joe Eszterhas
This ain't rock 'n' roll; this is genocide -- David Bowie
I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll. -- Elton John
I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood. -- William Shatner
Rock n' roll is poison put to sound. -- Pablo Casals
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
I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom. -- Ozzy Osbourne
The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber. -- Iggy Pop
Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off. -- Joan Jett
Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence. -- Johnny Ramone
Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand? -- Patti Smith
I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll. -- Ben Harper
Rock n Roll is music from the neck down. -- Keith Richards
The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band. -- Bruce Springsteen
Being a rock 'n' roll star ain't a part-time gig. -- Steven Van Zandt
I like everything from hard-style techno to rock n' roll. -- Kodi Smit-McPhee
Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall. -- Marty Liquori
It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands. -- Rick Springfield
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll. -- Bill Wyman
If it weren't for rock'n'roll, I wouldn't be a designer -- Tommy Hilfiger
I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver. -- Nina Blackwood
You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay -- Ozzy Osbourne
I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll -- Johnny Winter
You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll. -- Warren Cuccurullo
I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll. -- Paul Westerberg
To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing. -- Keith Richards
Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid. -- Salman Rushdie
I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in -- Brendan Fraser
The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't -- Mitch Miller
I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff. -- Juice Newton
Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive. -- Alex Turner
Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. -- Roger McGuinn
I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite. -- Ace Frehley
Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood. -- Joey Ramone
This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together. -- Cass McCombs
The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music. -- Robert Plant
Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain. -- Link Wray
Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll. -- Keith Moon
My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan. -- Slash
Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you. -- Lester Bangs
[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll. -- Miles Davis
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I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll. -- Carmen Electra
But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation. -- Little Richard
Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae. -- Jerry Hall
Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music. -- Steve Winwood
I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ... -- Patti Smith
Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact. -- Homer
Rock 'n roll was born in the South. It's like saying rock-rock. -- Gregg Allman
I'm no less rock 'n' roll than anyone else, I'm pretty normal. -- Konnie Huq
Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made. -- Jerry Lee Lewis
I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. -- Jon Landau
There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters. -- Neil Young

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