The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
I’d rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who’s trying to become a rock and roll drummer.
There’s no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I’ve always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.
Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
Authentic rock and roll is a sound that I’ve always been drawn to with bands like Brand New and Jimmy Eat World.
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n’ roll.
The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
I can’t tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.
In the early ’70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.
Rock and roll doesn’t necessarily mean a band. It doesn’t mean a singer, and it doesn’t mean a lyric, really. It’s that question of trying to be immortal.
Men have no idea how much more difficult it is for women in the rock and roll industry, and while we are trying to give birth, breastfeed, all they do is have a good time.
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.
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It’s their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
I don’t want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.
I think that being precious and rock and roll should never go together.
The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer’s main motivation is to become friends with the band. They’re not really journalists; they’re people who want to be involved in rock and roll.
Hopefully I’m bringing to rock n’ roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.
Rock and roll has become entertainment that just says what the consumer wants to hear. There’s no more edge or rebellion that sets it apart from the norm.
If your album sells, that’s cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we’re really about-which is a live rock and roll band.
I’m ready to rock and roll.
Anyone who’s got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some ’50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That’s it, really – I’m not a musician, I’m not a singer.
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.
It’s an honor to be brought into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame and I’m going to show up if I’m invited, you know?!
Rock and roll was a revelation for me.
I didn’t think you could just become a rock and roll singer.
Even now – I’m 35 – I’ve been in a relationship for 15 years with a guy, and we have two full incomes and no kids, and it’s hilarious. We’re children, perpetually, because of this rock and roll thing. But it’s still so fulfilling.
John Mayall doesn’t get enough credit. He’s not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is a tragedy.
I love rock and roll and loved getting on wrestling mats since I was six, and I have never been ashamed of it.
Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
I mean, there’s times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.
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.
I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn’t what I wanted in life.
Vegas is really rock and roll.
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.
I don’t know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Growing up, I was a giant KISS fan, and the truth is the record I had was ‘Rock and Roll Over,’ and there wasn’t even a clear picture of them in the packaging! So I really had no idea what they looked like; I just loved their music.
I was driving home and thinking about what rock and roll should be about. ‘Adventure and Trouble!’ I thought. I sang the song first and then added the chords later.
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we’re just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.
There’s a lot of politics in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There’s a lot us artists would change about the induction ceremony and who they pick.
I love old school rock and roll.
If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That’s what rock and roll is; it’s relentless.
I love India so much. It’s sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I’m ready to rock and roll.
The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.
The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a canonizing institution. Jann Wenner has worked to make Rolling Stone the keeper of the canon since 1970. I don’t like that, because he uses institutional power and he uses economic power to enforce those standards.
I look back on my life, comin’ out of Macon, Georgia – I never thought I’d be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.
We would not have rock and roll without Chuck Berry, and when I first heard Chuck Berry, I fell in love with that music, and when I saw him, I changed my whole career trajectory that I was on as a kid.
I guess there’s enough information out there to support that I’m a crazy, wild dude and rock and roll and this, that and the other. And there’s enough information to support that, you know, I’m a single father, that, you know, has been a pretty standup guy in his community and pretty private about that stuff.
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.
Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard’s concept of what success is but it doesn’t mean anything.
If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn’t repel them.
You’re in for a live band. That’s really what I wanted; I wanted to put on a show for people where they could come for the gay and stay for the musicianship. It’s a live show; there’s some rock stuff, too. Some rock and roll. Get ready.
My uncles listened to rock and roll like Led Zeppelin. We had MTV, so I saw Adam Ant and Boy George and Def Leppard.
To me, rock and roll is like an ethos or a state of mind.
I always thought that I had a pretty diverse body of work, I mean, as far as subject matter. Teenage rock and roll movie; romance; ’20s Western. On paper it looks different, but then there’s similarities in the vibe of them.
To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I’d never seen a rock and roll show, I’d never seen a comic or a show.
I have never been accepted. I’ll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They’re never going to let me in.
I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn’t like to bring that up to Mitch.
The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It’s definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
My first vinyl was a Kiss record and a Walt Disney record. I liked the energy of rock and roll.
I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.
