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“Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is on the way out. What we have instead is a small island of new free music surrounded by some good reworkings of past idioms and a vast sargasso sea of absolute garbage.”

Way Feels May Real Past Sea Rocks Periods Absolutes Innocent Islands Rock N Roll Adolescence Garbage Idiom Free Music

Book:Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll

Source: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll

“Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.”

Knows Rocks Rock N Roll

Author:Lester Bangs

“Good rock 'n' roll is something that makes you feel alive. It's something that's human, and I think that most music today isn't. ... To me good rock 'n' roll also encompasses other things, like Hank Williams and Charlie Mingus and a lot of things that aren't strictly defined as rock 'n' roll. Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock 'n' roll, or a movie can be rock 'n' roll. It's a way of living your life.”

Thinking Way Feels Writing Humans Today Form Attitude Alive Rocks Musical Defined Rock N Roll Live Your Life Strict Charlie Hank Williams

Author:Lester Bangs

“I contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears … I'm a gut pile addict … The pig didn't know I was there … it's my kick … I love shafting animals … it's rock 'n' roll power.”

Knows Animal Silence Blood Rocks Ears Winter Kicks Guts Rock N Roll Pigs Addict Trails

Author:Ted Nugent

“In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.”

People Ideas Artist Rocks Huge Band Shock Frightened Realising Rock N Roll Aspire Great Art Great Artist Samson

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.”

Stuff Rocks Rock N Roll Swings

Author:Juice Newton

“There's a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it's in your pocket. It's the feeling behind the rhythm to me, the hardest thing to strive for is that feeling, behind the groove.”

Feelings Certain Behinds Music Picks Flow Strive Hardest Rhythm Pockets Rock N Roll Hardest Thing Groove

Author:Max Weinberg

“Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.”

Has Beens Feelings Able Joy Culture Watches Air Particular Musician Musical Mood Rock N Roll Translate Scenery

Author:Trey Anastasio

“I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.”

Said Rocks Personality Composer Rock N Roll Ham Classical Composers Dabbling

Author:John Cale

“Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.”

Years Children Kids Song Names Music Modern Rocks Dance Folks Singers Rhythm Features Rock N Roll Swings Starving Folk Music Plantations Blues Music Folk Songs Folk Art Levees

Author:Alan Freed

“My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.”

Years Sound Memories Powerful Hearing Most Powerful Rock N Roll Heads Up

Author:Bela Fleck

“Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white”

Ifs White Rocks Easier Rock N Roll

Author:Kid Rock

“I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.”

Age Rocks Refuse Rock N Roll

Author:Ben Harper

“Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like.”

“I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.”

Use Relationship Rocks Jazz Rhythm Good Times Rock N Roll Jazz And Blues

Author:Adrian Mitchell

“Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward. I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of cigarette packs, sometimes on my shirt cuff. Rock n’ roll is closest thing I’ve got to a spiritual power. It’s been the higher voice in my life and it’s never let me down.”

“Don't play what's there, play what's not there.”

Play Music Jazz African American Rock N Roll Jazz Music Playing Jazz Jazz And Life

Author:Miles Davis

“Good fashion for me is like rock ‘n’ roll – there’s always a little rebellion in it.”

Littles Rocks Fashion Rebellion Rock N Roll

Author:Ann Demeulemeester

“You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.”

Thinking Knows Stars Technology Rocks Rock N Roll Ceo

Author:James Daly

“I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.”

Done Doors Rocks College Band Photography Photographer Rock N Roll Airplane Aeroplanes

Author:John Dykstra

“As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.”

Art Form Spirit Fire Rocks Rhythm Territory Rock N Roll Gasoline New Territory

Author:Taylor Hanson

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

Stars Rocks Fronts Candidates Rock N Roll

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.”

Children Music Is Pops Stealing Pockets Rock N Roll Pop Music

Author:Ian Anderson

“I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really rock 'n' roll — but he's made me a convert. I do go to their concerts whenever we're in the same town and I don't even have to wear earplugs any more, which I did in the beginning.”

Made Fans Rocks Towns Jazz Concerts Rock N Roll Rock N Roll Music

Author:Blythe Danner

“A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.”

People Needs Should Able Rooms Clear Rocks Band Skins Hats Rock N Roll

Author:Paul Westerberg

“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

“Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.”

People Thinking World Way Needs Rocks Rock N Roll

Author:Julian Cope

“I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.”

Firsts Bigs Wanted Three Records Achievement Harmony Guitar Rock N Roll Big Things

Author:Brian May

“Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.”

Rocks Talent Nostalgia Hanging Out Rock N Roll Bane

Author:Jim DeRogatis

“It just seemed like all the records I have made since Creedence Clearwater Revival have all been sort of pushed off center. I felt like I was dancing around the outskirts of what is my true center. With this album, I really wanted to stay on the mark, right in the middle, right where rock 'n' roll is. I wanted this one to be easier, a lot more fun than some of the past records have been.”

Has Beens Made Wanted Past Fun Felt Records Middle Rocks Easier Mark Dancing Albums Rock N Roll Revival

Author:John Fogerty

“It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.”

Ifs Knows World Years Rocks Draws Eight Agents Rock N Roll Heartless Time Off

Author:Tina Weymouth

“Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.”

Real Stars Records Rocks Genuine Rock N Roll Rock Star

Author:Ronnie Spector

“I look around me and I don’t see any rock’n’roll at the moment. Instead it’s all choreography and stylists and wigs and stuff. It’s like they’re afraid to let the music breathe. No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day. We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too. We didn’t have no dancers, we didn’t have no goddamn wigs.”

Looks Moments Stuff Sides Rocks Identity Sweet Tough Breathe Dancer Rock N Roll Skirts Choreography Wigs Harlem Stylist Back In The Day Slits Spanish Harlem

Author:Ronnie Spector

“I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.”

Thinking Industry Rock N Roll Music Industry Irish Music

Author:Van Morrison

“Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.”

Speak Language Force Sports Emotion Rocks International Rock N Roll Dominant International Language

Author:Phil Knight

“Thanks for the joy that you're givin' me I want you to know I believe in your song Rhythm and rhyme and harmony You help me along, makin' me strong, Give me the beat boys and free my soul I wanna get lost in your rock n' roll And drift away . . .”

“Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.”

Should Fun Rocks Get Up Rock N Roll Gross Rock Music Trousers Rock And Roll Music

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.”

Ifs Want Asks Rocks Ask Me Retiring Annoying Rock N Roll

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.”

Wells Art Different Rock N Roll Good Art Places You Go

Author:Nile Rodgers

“Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.”

Knows My Own Generations Rocks Rock N Roll Rock And Roll My Generation Rock And Roll Music

Author:Ronnie James Dio

“I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.”

Thinking Wells Done Rocks Stupid Tvs Foolish Mediums Rock N Roll Rock N Roll Music

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.”

Rocks Suits Rock N Roll Songwriters Finest

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.”

White Influence Rocks Pure Rock N Roll

Author:Johnny Ramone

“What I'm doing is keeping the spirit of Rock'N Roll alive. Rock 'n roll is supposed to be fast and loud and its supposed to piss off the older generation.”

Spirit Alive Generations Rocks Supposed To Be Loud Rock N Roll Older Generation

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I'm spoiled - in all ways. I've been in a rock 'n' roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different.”

Way Trying Different Rocks Band Incredibles Rock N Roll Spoiled

Author:Peter Noone

“To all who pass that they may see, Rock 'N' Roll was a part of me.”

May Rocks Rock N Roll

Book:Arfur: teenage pinball queen: a novel

Source: Arfur: teenage pinball queen: a novel

“I was pissed off about a lot of things...so much shitty rock ’n’ roll that angered me, and Pussy Galore was kicking against that. With the Blues Explosion, there was some of that, but now I was into celebrating it.”

Rocks Celebrate Rock N Roll Explosions Kicking Pussy Pissed Off

Author:Jon Spencer

“Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.”

Guy Rocks Rock N Roll Diplomats

Author:Gary Cherone

“And a lot of the technique and the little T-Bone phrases that define his style, Chuck Berry, when he rearranged the beat, they became rock 'n roll guitar licks. So in essence, T-Bone was not only the first electric blues guitar player, but he was the first electric rock 'n roll guitar player, really.”

Firsts Littles Player Rocks Style Beats Essence Guitar Bones Technique Phrases Rock N Roll Electric Guitar Player Chuck Berries

Author:Duke Robillard

“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.”

Ifs Kind Play Asks Rocks Pops Hotel Rock N Roll Hospitality

Author:Buddy Holly

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