ROCK 'N' ROLL QUOTES
quotations about rock 'n' roll
If I hadn't heard rock and roll on the radio, I would have had no idea there was life on this planet.
LOU REED
liner notes, Peel Slowly and See
Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
It's gotta be rock roll music
If you want to dance with me
CHUCK BERRY
"Rock and Roll Music"
For me rock and roll is about the freedom to express yourself very loudly.
BOB GRUEN
"Photographer Bob Gruen: Everything about the Rolling Stones is rock and roll", Page Six, December 4, 2015
We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock and roll or Christianity.
JOHN LENNON
Evening Standard, March 4, 1966
Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.
EMMA THOMPSON
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
Rock stars are hard to define--but you know one when you see one. They need to be musicians, naturally, and they need to be well known. But that's not enough. Chris Martin, of Coldplay, for example, is not a rock star; Bono palpably is.
MICHAEL HANN
"The rise and fall of the rock star", Financial Times, October 20, 2017
Rock 'n' Roll is as integral to American society as Baseball, the Statue of Liberty or even the corndog.
BEN KEMPTON
"The Age of Hip Hop", Forge Today, October 7, 2017
Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them.
PETE TOWNSHEND
attributed, Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. Electric rock music creeps, like chemical seasoning, into everything. Rock and roll is mother's little helper on the housewife radio, plays across film sound-tracks and sells packaged goods.
PETER YORK
Style Wars
I wanted to make the greatest rock record that I'd ever heard, and I wanted it to sound enormous and I wanted it to grab you by your throat and insist that you take that ride, insist that you pay attention, not to just the music, but just to life, to feeling alive, to being alive.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, Rolling Stone, August 25, 2015
"Rock and Roll" is the tribal war cry of the 20th Century.
DAVE THOMPSON
1000 Songs that Rock Your World
Music is just a younger game. You have to go on tour and live in a van where you don't wash. If you're above 30 you can't. If you're over 30 and you're trying to still be in a rock band, you're just pathetic.
JOHN LEE
interview, IndieWire, September 9, 2013
Rock 'n' roll is a thing of infinite possibilities. Two guitars, bass, drums, and keyboards: However limited it looks on paper, in practice it's an almost sculptural medium, stunning in its plasticity, something that can always be given a new shape.
WARREN ZANES
"Tom Petty Was Rock 'n' Roll's Ambassador to the World", Slate, October 3, 2017
Life is a disease. The only cure is rock 'n' roll.
ANONYMOUS
I love rock 'n' roll
And all these people with no where to go
THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
"I Hate Rock 'n' Roll"
In the end, Rock 'n' Roll will save us all.
ANONYMOUS
We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Guitar Magazine, July 1999
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
attributed, The Book of Rock Lists
The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Bruce Springsteen Talking
Rock and roll is not one music but many.
ROBERT PALMER
"Folk, Popular, Jazz, and Classical Elements in New Orleans", Folk Music and Modern Sound