On A Roll Quotes

Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide.

Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.

Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.

I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.

I love a little more driving rock and roll vibe and that kind of music has always spoke to me. I guess it just rubs off when I'm writing music.

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

I don't really inject the rock 'n' roll thing, what I take from rock 'n' roll is probably the melodies and the musical behind it.

Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.

Rock and roll has had a powerful anti-Christian subtheme for decades now.

Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.

I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

I am a D.J., I am what I play.

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

You can't stop rock-n-roll!

I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

I think as a music listener you have your rock and roll dreams. I personally wouldn't want to apply that necessarily, mainly because I love music too much to mess it up.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasnt very hip.

I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case.

He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun.

What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.

My guitar wants to kill your mama.

Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.

I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.

Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.

My encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll is a millstone around my neck.

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.

I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.