Quotes on Rock N Roll

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock 'n' roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

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

Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

If it screams truth rather than help, if it commits itself with a courage that it can't be sure it really has, if it stands up and admits that something is wrong, but doesn't insist on blood, then it's rock n' roll.

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.

Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified.

She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.