On A Roll Quotes

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

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

I think record companies are criminals.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

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.

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.

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

This album was designed to touch your soul.

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.

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

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

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.

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

Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.

Spread your ear pollution far and wide.

I bought me a guitar about a year ago, learned how to play in a day or so.

I usually listen to classic rock and roll.

Don't tell me baby you gotta go, I got the hifi high and the lights down low.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

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.

I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on.

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with.

Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.

People like controversy because that's what sells.

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.

I'm down to a bottle of wine a day, but my hands still shake a bit.

All rock and roll is homosexual.

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.