Best Old Rock Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.”

Book Stories Rocks Musical Rock N Roll Terrific Clash Titans Old Rock

Author:William McKeen

“The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.”

Source: It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal

“When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.”

Stills Cutting Rocks Performing Rock N Roll Old Rock Recording Music

Author:Jon Landau

“Who hasn't made mistakes? I once french kissed a dog at a party to try to impress what turned out to be a very tall 12 year old.”

Trying Years Made Party Mistake Rocks Dog Tall Impress Made A Mistake French Kiss Old Rock Rocking Out

Author:LIZ

“This is a record I ended up having to make to get on to the next stage of my life. What I did was a desperate thing to do. I'm aware of the fact that it was irrational. I didn't mean to make it sound like it was my master plan. The tour had even been going all right, but I was just kind of fed up with the situation as it was, playing the same old rock and roll crap that everyone goes through, the general moaning when you really should be grateful that you don't work in the checkout counter at the grocery.”

“People have said on blogs - which is kind of where I decide where to describe my style, from other people telling me - so I don't know, people say it's like, "electro-pop with glam and old rock influences." Or it's "indie pop" or whatever that means.”

People Knows Kind Mean Said Influence Rocks Style Pops Blogs Glam Old Rock

Author:BØRNS

“Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.”

Different Shows Kids Fun Stuff Rocks Scene Rock N Roll Punk Ipods Old Rock

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.”

Song Rocks Rock And Roll Looking For Love Old Rock

Author:Robert Englund

“Looking at the Obamas, it's like my father and my mother 43 years later. It was the same old rock star thing, and I think Barack is continuing what my father did with true consciousness, true ability, and a global view.”

Thinking Years Mother Father Stars Ability Views Consciousness Rocks Barack Continuing Rock Star Old Rock

Author:Malaak Shabazz

“As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn't compose in the early American rock tradition.”

Writing Audience Groups Rocks Tough Tradition Dancing Performing Liverpool Old Rock

Author:Jon Landau

“The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.”

Wells Doe Rocks Idols Rock N Roll Intimidated Lennon Old Rock

Author:Jon Landau

“I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.”

“Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.”

Thinking May Ideas Seems Walks Rocks Ordinary Paint Why Not Realising Now And Then Old Rock

Book:O'Keeffe

Source: O'Keeffe

“I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.”

Way Firsts Hard Young Felt Forever Generations Rocks Brands Fallen Classic Cracks Rock N Roll Glowing Brand New Classic Rock Old Rock

Author:Paul Westerberg

“Every man has to settle down eventually. You know why you gotta settle down eventually? Because you don't want to be the old guy in the club. You know what I'm talking about. Every club you go into, there's always some old guy. He ain't really old, just a little too old to be in the club.”

Knows Men Want Littles Humor Funny Guy Talking Clubs Every Man Settling Settling Down Old Guys Old Rock

Author:Chris Rock

“Will none of the powers that be realize what Brian Wilson did with the chords. Deftly taking from all sources, old rock, Four Freshman, he got in his records a beautiful hybrid sound - Let Him Run Wild, Don't Worry Baby, I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun - 'and she had fun, fun, fun 'till her daddy took her T-bird away.'”

Running Beautiful Fun Sound Realizing Worry Records Four Rocks Source Baby Bird Daddy Chords Wilson Brian Hybrid Freshman Had Fun Old Rock

Author:Lou Reed

“You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.”

Hard Rocks Old Rock

Author:Billy Joel

“I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.”

Rocks Toms Rock And Roll Petty Springsteen Old Rock

Author:Nick Carter