“Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.” Quote by Robert Wyatt
“As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.” KindStillsAttitudeAliveRocksMusic IsRock N RollRock And RollRock And Roll Music Author:David Byrne
“Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.” IfsWorldWayLyingRocksPerformersRock N RollRock And Roll Author:Mac Davis
“I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.” CareCuttingRocksListeningDon't CareTeethI Don't CareRock N RollRingo Author:Don Henley
“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.” PeopleIfsRocksBandSellsAlbumsRock N RollRock And Roll Author:Nikki Sixx
“Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.” AmericaCultureRocksJazzRock N RollRock And Roll Author:Bill Griffith
“Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.” GivenTakenRocksRock N RollRock And Roll Author:Charlie Watts
“Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.” IdeasMomentsFunPleasureFailingRocksTerribleTasteJudgmentInventionClarityCombinationManipulationExcessGood IdeasRock N RollUnbelievableNoveltyJunkHideousVulgarityFadsGullibilityTaste And Judgment Book:Mystery Train Source: Mystery Train
“The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't” ReasonKidsParentRocksRock N Roll Author:Mitch Miller
“You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.” KnowsHas BeensRocksRock N RollCasualties Author:Warren Cuccurullo
“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.” EnoughStrongStrengthMastersDutyObedienceStrongestStrong EnoughSocial Contract Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau