On A Roll Quotes

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.

I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.

Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want.

I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n' roll lifestyle and still be romantic.

NUTHIN' more fun than Rock n' Roll!

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!

This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress.

When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

It don't spit or swear or sleep around. I've always maintained I'm the most radical rock'n'roll singer Britain has ever seen.

You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.

Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.

Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.

I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse.

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.

Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.

I still believe in rock and roll, it pays my bills.

A girl playing rock and roll, it's saying I own my sexuality and I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. And I think people just find that threatening.

I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.

The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it.

Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ. The two are melded together in ways both unpredictable and unsure.

So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.

I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock n roll and ex-wives. In that order.