Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.
On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins.
It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn’t done. And I felt it, too.
When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
There’s always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.
I’m not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that’s the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.
You know, sexism in the punk scene – or just in rock and roll in general – is so easily demonstrated by the amount of women or queer people that you see on stage versus the amount of cis males that you see on stage.
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.’
Liverpool are known for this ‘rock and roll’ football. I think I’ve adapted well to this even if, as a player, I like to hold onto the ball longer.
Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn’t eligible for another fifteen years.
Some people come to our shows and think they’re gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they’re pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll.
Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.
What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?
Rock ‘n’ roll guitar came from blues guitar. It was the blues guys who first turned the amp up and started whacking on the Stratocaster and a Les Paul. It wasn’t the country guys and it wasn’t the white guys; it was the Blues guys. That’s where the real fire is in all of this rock and roll music.
If you’re trying to get to the underworld of Berlin, it’s not suits and ties; it’s rock and roll.
If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can’t say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs.
I have a saying, which is, ‘Crazy is good for business.’ I think rock and roll really is about being a bit crazy.
Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ‘Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they’re a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.
Rock and roll is not just music, it is a way of life, it has its own spirit.
We really like L.A. because it really likes rock and roll.
Rock and roll is here to stay.
Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.
I grew up on rock and roll like My Chemical Romance, who were actually genuinely talking about and saying things.
I remember a song I did called ‘If the Good Die Young’ – I wanted to have a lead guitar solo on there, and the label flipped out! It was too rock and roll. They made us go back and put fiddle on the solo.
