On A Roll Quotes

It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)

I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions.

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.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

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.

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll.

You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

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.

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.

There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright.

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.

All rock n roll is homosexual.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

We are looking at these rock 'n' roll campers, and we know what is going on in their minds because we've been there.

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.

Wherever there are rock n rollers, well play. Thats what weve been doing for more than 30 years - rock n roll. Its made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

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.

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

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.

I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.

There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.

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.

Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified.

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'm not really this rock'n'roll chick.

I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.

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.