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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.
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
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.
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.
Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.
I listen to everything while I train. From old school reggae, to classical stuff like Bach, to hip-hop, to rock and roll.
Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
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.
I wouldn't want to end up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the 'Master of Hip-Hop Samples,' but you take what you can get.
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.
Hip-hop belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's one of the most radical, revolutionary and reactionary music there is.
Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing soft, sadder beautiful songs.
. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.
There is very little genuine rock and roll out there at the moment - but Steve Conte has hit the nail on the head with this one!
Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.
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.'
Rock and roll is about having a good time, so no matter where you are right now blast some music and forget about lifes problems.
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.
Motley is a great band; they're a legendary band. They're probably going to go into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at some point.
My body is the rock and roll temple and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people whether they like it or not
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
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.
But somehow I feel the world is taking me away from my original rock roots of inspiration. Rock and roll is losing its past glory.
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.
Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.
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.
I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.
It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.
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.
The old-timers schooled me good. They brainwashed me to respect music, whether we were playing rockabilly or blues or rock and roll.
If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can't say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs.
Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.
Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.
No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.
Even in film, books, and music, there's always action - there's always rock and roll. Young people appreciate that kind of experience.
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.
To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.
The Ramones are an original rock and roll group of 1975, and their songs are brief, to the point, and every one a potential hit single.
My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.
Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in Little Richard and Chuck Berry.
If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.