Quotes About Rock'n'roll

The first time I heard rock'n'roll on a big sound system would have been at a fairground at the seaside. That's a hell of a sensory experience right there.

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

Bath was hardly known for its rock'n roll. We weren't part of the London scene or the New Romantics or any of that.

Not one person from the music world has ever come with - as if I could get a rock'n'roller up at four in the morning to play golf - but that's fine. I have way too much going on to sit around waiting for tee time at two in the afternoon.

Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies.

It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s.

All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

If it was too windy sixty feet up, Bowie couldn't perform the song for fear of toppling off his mounting and becoming a rock'n'roll casualty. For the 1987 tour, as if in a fit

I was watching TV once, and 'Jailhouse Rock' comes on, and I'm like, 'What is this?' I started watching it, and at the end, I thought, 'This is what I want to do. That's what I want to be. That's for me. That's it!'

Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.

I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

We got such abuse on a daily basis. They were trying to harden us to the reality of the rock'n'roll world but how could we possibly know this wasn't the way it was supposed to be?

I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll.

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

You can't have a heart attack and leave me an orphan. You know I'd just blow all our money on drugs and rock'n'roll." "All the best heroes are orphans," Dad said. "You'd be in good company, if you went on a quest or something." He looked at the other girls. "You're not orphans, are you?" "Not me," they both answered. "You'll never amount to anything....

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

I would say that longtime fans of the Rolling Stones will be thrilled with these results, and new fans will understand why they're the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world.

A vida de cozinheiro era uma vida de aventura, saque, pilhagem e rock'n'roll sem parar, com um desprezo displicente por toda a moral convencional. A vida do outro lado do muro parecia-me muito boa.

I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.

At a gig in Liverpool I had this lady give me 21 cup cakes she had made herself. It's not really rock'n'roll is it? Tom Jones gets pants thrown at him and I get given fairy cakes.

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.