On A Roll Quotes

With all the innovation in music today it’s rare to find someone like Engel writing timeless songs that sound at home in the ribcage of rock n roll’s skeleton.

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n roll thing going on.

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.

When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower.

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

I didn't come here to run for President. I really just came here to play rock and roll.

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.

By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.

To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

You have to be kind of sensitive to be in rock and roll.

It takes a real man to wear silk! There aren't a lot of manly men in rock and roll because it's all about cross-dressing to a degree. You have to be kind of sensitive to be in rock and roll.

I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do.

When I started out I thought I might make a little money, get some girls, get a taste of the rock 'n' roll life. It's gone way beyond that.

I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white

I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.

Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as well as the other.

I'm no less rock 'n' roll than anyone else, I'm pretty normal.

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

For me, it's more about keeping it simple with a rock and roll edge. It's all about accessorising.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.

Christians are a lot like dinosaurs - about to become extinct.

Rock n roll is about drugs.

I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

I know my ambitions are big, but you've got to have something after rock and roll.

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

Rock and roll is commitment. Rock and roll is passion and spirit.

I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.

We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.