On A Roll Quotes

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians.

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.

Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll.

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.

There is very little genuine rock and roll out there at the moment - but Steve Conte has hit the nail on the head with this one!

That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

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.

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

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.

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

This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.

Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.

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.

If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.

My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.

Peace Love Rock and Roll!!!

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

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.

There's a whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl.

I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.

I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link.

I think record companies are criminals.

I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

This album was designed to touch your soul.

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.

Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.

It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

Rock 'n' roll but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.

Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.