Rock And Roll Music Quotes

• Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

  Elvis Presley

  Moving, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Hangover, Drinking, Kids

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• Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

  Salman Rushdie

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

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• Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Rock N Roll

  "Rock & Roll Facts, Figures & Fun". Book by Mike Evans, 2005.

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• It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

  Chuck Berry

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Quality

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• Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Fun, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

  Keith Richards

  Guitar, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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• No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

  Frank Zappa

  Change, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.

  David Byrne

  Attitude, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Rolling Stone Magazine, December 13, 1990.

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• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

  Elvis Presley

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)

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• Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Rock And Roll, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there.

  Dave Grohl

  Real, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Foo Fighters Win, Defend Rock Music At VMAS" by Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. August 28, 2011.

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• [Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-'60s with the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.

  Bill Walton

  Song, Strong, Grateful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Argentina is a very interesting culture because unlike Europe and the US, they did not abandon rock and roll music, they did not turn their backs on it. It's an important part of their culture. So guitar music is an important part of their culture. So me being into rock music, I get respect working there, which wasn't happening in Europe or in the US.

  Gordon Raphael

  Rocks, Guitar Music, Europe

  Source: www.indieberlin.de

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• 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.

  Klaus Nomi

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.

  Al Kooper

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Influence

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• I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• So lots of respect for all you boys and girls out there who tab out songs like all the time. You bring rock and roll music closer to the people. Gratefully yours

  Thurston Moore

  Music, Girl, Song

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• Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.

  Paul Stanley

  Country, Rocks, Nashville

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• My dad supports me. He said, "I wished when I was at your age I started doing rock and roll music. Then I wouldn't have to be a fashion designer." And I just laugh and keep it moving and appreciate his support.

  Richard Hilfiger

  Fashion, Dad, Moving

  Source: www.complex.com

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