Quotes of: Rock-and-roll Keyword

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.

Dave Grohl

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

Diablo Cody

Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.

Diablo Cody

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

Joan Jett

My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.

Tim Cahill

When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way

Post Everything: Outsider Rock and Roll

You know what punk is? a bunch of no-talent guys who really, really want to be in a band. Nobody reads music, nobody plays the mandolin, and you're too dumb to write songs about mythology or Middle-earth. So what's your style? Three chords, cranked o...

Born to Rock

Listen, I know you just got back, and you’re exhausted, but I need a favor.” Not again… I was looking forward to going home and sleeping for a day, or several. “I have a date tonight?” “A date?” He choked. I didn’t date, and he knew i...

Battlescars: A Rock & Roll Romance

I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like rock and roll, doesn't consume me 24-7, it's not love. It can be respect, appreciation, admiration, ...

Not Dead & Not for Sale

Red: [narrating] Tommy Williams came to Shawshank in 1965 on a two-year stretch for B&E. That's breaking & entering to you. Cops caught him sneaking TV sets out the back door of a JC Penney. Young punk. Mr. Rock and Roll. Cocky as hell. Tommy William...

The Shawshank Redemption

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us

I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.

Benmont Tench

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

Tori Amos

I cried tears you'll never see. So fuck you, you can go cry me a ocean and leave me be

Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll

addiction is an insidious disease that's always lurking nearby like a snake ready to strike.

Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll

My granddad was an evangelist, and my grandma, she was as tough as nails. She watched 'American Bandstand' every day when she was in her 80s, 90s. She loved rock music. I never had anyone in my family that was anti-rock n' roll.

Alice Cooper

There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

Bono

The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop singer... if you've made your way in another genre of music and now you want to make a country record, why? That's my question. Why?

Joe Nichols

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought...

Jesse Stone

When rock & roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.

Paul Stanley

To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

Kelly Osbourne