Rock N Roll Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

People like controversy because that's what sells.

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

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

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

I hope I die before I get old.

Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.

I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.

Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing... or producing.

I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.

Rock 'n' roll never sleeps it just passes out.

Being in a rock n' roll and pop world, it's very easy to act like a kid.

To all who pass that they may see, Rock 'N' Roll was a part of me.

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.

I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom.

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.

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.

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.

Country music belongs to America.

What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.

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

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.

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.

You can't stop rock-n-roll!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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