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“When I started off in Wales, I sang and accompanied myself with guitar in the '50s. And then I got a band together, which is a rhythm section, really. I used to do a lot of blues, and rhythm and blues, and '50s rock 'n' roll and country, and all kinds of stuff.”

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Author:Tom Jones

“I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.”

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Author:Lola Kirke

“We are looking at these rock 'n' roll campers, and we know what is going on in their minds because we've been there.”

Knows Mind Rocks Rock N Roll Campers

Author:Rob Halford

“What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.”

Rocks Band Lips Features Rock N Roll

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“I think that's the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock 'n' roll movies. They're playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock 'n' roll bad together. I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I'm a pretty klutzy parent.”

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Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“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

“Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.”

Way Country Artist Culture Rocks Honest Serious Rap Being Honest Rock N Roll Being Loved Other Cultures

Author:Master P

“I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've always acted kind of like a man.”

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Author:Elle King

“My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock 'n' roll? No. I wanted a guitar, but my mother didn't really want me to have one. At some point I played a violin, but I didn't last long at that.”

Want Kind Long Bigs Wanted Lasts Mother Father Stuff Parent Rocks Band Guitar Dancer Want Me Rock N Roll Violin

Author:Mark Alan Stamaty

“Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Little Richard and Etta James all play the same venues. It was a mix of funk, soul, blues and rock 'n' roll.”

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Author:Phil Collen

“It ended suddenly for Brenda, more slowly for me. My runs began getting shorter and less pleasurable. I'd feel bad after only one day, or only a few hours, instead of four or five days. And I began to want to stop. One of the proudest moments of my life was at a rock-'n'-roll theater in New Jersey. A guy actually put some coke under my nose and I was able to say, "No, thanks," and turn my head away.”

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Author:George Carlin

“I don't know what you wanna describe as Rock 'n' Roll, but I certainly thought that 60s stuff, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, changed the world a little bit. But the effect seems to have retreated. I think it's harder than we think to change the world. These things go in cycles. It doesn't seem to have done an awful lot of good, does it? You know, all the talk of racial harmony and equality in the world... we haven't got a long way since the 60s.”

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Author:David Gilmour

“I was pretty shocked [having concert in the Madison Square Garden]. It could have gone either way. But I think it's the right time. Nobody does what we do with taking the visuals and making it a complete rock 'n' roll show with the really good songs. Nobody's done that in a long time.”

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Author:Vince Neil

“The best thing is to motivate people to do their own work. I'm not opposed to making money. But I started to play rock 'n' roll to motivate others, to shake things up, wake people up and to let other skinny, pimply marginalized weirdos know they're not alone.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“Disco existed before we were all born and will exist afterwards. It is a ritual - it is a celebration - and it is the same kind of music that we call disco or rock'n'roll or a whole list of names that we can call it. Call it what you will, nothing will change the fact that certain kinds of music will make you want to celebrate or party.”

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Author:Grace Jones

“Being a female hard rocker and guitar player, I felt the need to put out a memoir. Almost like a rock 'n' roll women manual for women.”

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Author:Lita Ford

“The thing that sometimes gets lost is people look at the harder edge of me ... the leather jacket and the tough rock 'n' roll attitude... and get the wrong impression that I'm mean. That's really something I don't want people to think because I don't think that's the case.”

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Author:Joan Jett

“Rock 'n' roll never sleeps it just passes out.”

Sleep Rocks Rock N Roll Never Sleep

Author:George Thorogood

“The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.”

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Author:B. B. King

“I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.”

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Author:Adam Lambert

“I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.”

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Author:Jon Landau

“Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.”

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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.”

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Author:Jon Landau

“There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced her own music, which let me know that women could write and produce their own music, which was an empowering moment for me.”

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Author:Queen Latifah

“We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.”

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Author:John Lennon

“If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.”

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Author:John Lennon

“Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.”

Should Used Hell Rocks Fields Singing Slave Lifts Rock N Roll Better Place

Author:Meat Loaf

“I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.”

Thinking Interest Rocks Rock N Roll Amalgamation

Author:John Lydon

“The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.”

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Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.”

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Author:Marilyn Manson

“If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.”

Ifs Men Would Be Black Rocks Beats Jazz Rhythm Rock N Roll

Author:Ray Manzarek

“I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.”

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Author:Bruno Mars

“I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.”

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Author:John Mayer

“She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.”

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Author:Paul McCartney

“Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.”

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Author:Malcolm Mclaren

“Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.”

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Author:Joni Mitchell

“You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.”

Knows Mean Young Dies Rocks Singing Sight Rock N Roll Swings

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.”

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Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.”

People Rock N Roll Drummer

Author:Keith Moon

“The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.”

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Author:Robert Morgan

“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.”

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Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.”

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Author:Jimmy Page

“I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.”

Thinking Different Culture Serious Musician Roots Rock N Roll Different Cultures

Author:Jimmy Page

“Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.”

Culture Leader Rocks Roots Feminist African American Rock N Roll Popular Culture

Author:Camille Paglia

“I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.”

Eye Music Ears Rock N Roll

Author:Adele

“Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.”

Kind Rocks Hopefully Rock N Roll Rock And Roll Spontaneity

Author:Joe Perry

“It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.”

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Author:Tom Petty

“Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.”

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Author:John Belushi

“Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'”

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Author:Elvis Presley

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