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  • 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.

    Teenage   Rocks   Years  
    "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.
  • Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

    Source: archives.nbclearn.com
  • African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll.

    Source: progressive.org
  • 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.

  • This album was designed to touch your soul.

    Song: Weatherman, Album: Happy People / U Saved Me
  • Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter of fact, before Mike, Woody and I really got going on touring on the old Animosity stuff, Karl & I did about a dozen shows performing the Blind album from start to finish. He's still a good friend of mine and is now in a band called Lead Foot that's more Rock and Roll but they're fantastic, kind of Thin Lizzy or MC5 sounding.

    Source: theindiespiritualist.com
  • One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

    Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965
  • We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

    Music   Jesus   Rocks  
    Interview with Maureen Cleave in Evening Standard 4 Mar. 1966. Cf. Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar.

    Attitude   Rocks   Guitar  
  • I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

  • Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By.

    Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”
  • The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.

  • The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in...The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.

  • I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.

    Source: www.broadwayworld.com
  • Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.

    Song: Dreamville, Album: The Last DJ
  • Enjoy music. Not the kind that rocks and rolls, but the music of the masters, the music that has lived through the centuries, the music that has lifted people. If you do not have a taste for it, listen to it thoughtfully. If you do not like it the first time, listen to it again and keep listening.

  • Well all of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks, get into your kicks. Come back baby, rock and roll never forgets.

    Baby   Children   Rocks  
    Song: Rock and Roll Never Forgets, Album: Night Moves
  • I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.

  • The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.

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

  • Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

    Men   Fire   Guitar  
  • Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a nasty horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough.

  • I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

  • 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.

    Song: Rock and Roll Is Dead
  • All rock and roll is homosexual.

    "Everything: A Book About Manic Street Preachers". Book by Simon Price (p. 114), 1999.
  • Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when I started to listen to music on my own it was around the time of the birth of rock and roll. Shortly thereafter I started to get into more blues and more traditional rootsy American music.

    Interview with Scott Preston, www.cincygroove.com. April 3, 2008.
  • I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

  • We know that drugs, sex and rock and roll stimulates something called dopamine in the brain. So do videogames. Dopamine is something that we crave.

    Source: www.salon.com
  • The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones." "That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll.

    Mistake   Rocks   Blood  
    Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.67, Random House Books for Young Readers
  • 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.

    Dream   Thinking   Rocks  
    Source: www.aboutfilm.com
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