On A Roll Quotes

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.

Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug.

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should see a shrink. Then she started crying and I started laughing.

Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.

I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.

Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll?

It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong, so I'll have to say I love you in a song.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

The angels had guitars before they had wings.

You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay

God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.

My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the juke box, baby.

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn't like it.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

It's Only Rock and Roll.

All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.

Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive.

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

I love the classic trucker jacket as an icon of rock 'n' roll and rebellion.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar.

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.

Rock and roll is about having a good time.

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.

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.