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I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very essential.
I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.
What the hell is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and what does it do besides talk about itself and sell postcards?
It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that
Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame decided to open up the voting beyond their inner circle, to the actual fans, that's when I think everything changed.
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.
I grew up on rock and roll like My Chemical Romance, who were actually genuinely talking about and saying things.
It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.
Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.
Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.
Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.
There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.
I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.
You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.
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.
This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.
Hip-hop belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's one of the most radical, revolutionary and reactionary music there is.
I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.
Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow The drummer relaxes and waits between shows For his cinnamon girl.
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.
Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.
I have a saying, which is, 'Crazy is good for business.' I think rock and roll really is about being a bit crazy.
If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about.
There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.
I kind of enjoyed having people complain that I wasn't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame more than I think I'll like being in it.
Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.
These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
It'd be really great to see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame mature. It's a good facility there in Cleveland. I like the museum a lot.
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.
If there were 3,000 people in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the musical education would be so much better than this little elite thing.
I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."