Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

If Rage gets inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it'll be interesting to see who shows up.

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

Should the Moody Blues be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That's absurd. Of course they should be.

Is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that important to me? No. Is it something I've aspired towards? No.

If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you.

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.

Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong, so I'll have to say I love you in a song.

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent.

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

Ah, it's awesome learning about theater, but it's a completely different musical landscape from rock and roll.

I love rock and roll and loved getting on wrestling mats since I was six, and I have never been ashamed of it.

I started out dabbling in rock and roll; then I did playback, and I have also sung for my own songs on screen.

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

Authentic rock and roll is a sound that I've always been drawn to with bands like Brand New and Jimmy Eat World.

You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.

You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.

I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.

As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well.

It's an honor to be brought into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame and I'm going to show up if I'm invited, you know?!

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

My uncles listened to rock and roll like Led Zeppelin. We had MTV, so I saw Adam Ant and Boy George and Def Leppard.

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

People still think I led a rock and roll lifestyle. I was in my kitchen 100 hours a week; I didn't have time to do that.

Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.

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

I listen to everything while I train. From old school reggae, to classical stuff like Bach, to hip-hop, to rock and roll.

From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as well as the other.

I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.

Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

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