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Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to. — Scott Weiland

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll. — Roger Glover

We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was. — Slash

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. — Buddy Holly

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?
I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger. — Cher

Rock has always been THE DEVIL'S MUSIC ... I believe rock and roll is dangerous ... I feel we're only heralding SOMETHING EVEN DARKER THAN OURSELVES. — David Bowie

I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot. — Bobbie Ann Mason

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

I'm not really into the rock n' roll lifestyle; I'm a music geek! — Michael Kiwanuka

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music. — Steve Winwood

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like. — B.B. King

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it. — Neil Young

Rock & roll is dying. It's frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now. — Kurt Cobain

'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music. — Bruno Mars

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you. — Lester Bangs

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll. — Joe Walsh

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough ... I've always had to deal with this black-white thing. — Lenny Kravitz

Violence existed before our music was even suggested. — Big Pun

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria. — Vance Packard

I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music! — Homer

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

I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll. — E.D. Hirsch Jr.

America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff. — Taylor Hawkins

This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll. — Eddie Vedder

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music. — Debbie Harry

It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll) — Mitch Miller

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me. — Chuck Berry

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there. — Dave Grohl

Music always sounds better on Friday. — Lou Brutus

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

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off. — Joan Jett

It was a crypt where music played to masses of the dead, and McJagger was their desolate pharaoh, a walking mummified king. I remembered it well. — Red Tash

In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them. — Lin Brehmer

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.' — Joan Jett

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot. — Manuel Puig

There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer. — Tom Petty

We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time. — Bobby Keys

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all. — Joan Jett

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant. — Ani DiFranco

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

Some say it's too country, some say it's too rock n' roll. But it's just good music if you can feel it in your soul. — Tim McGraw

You don't take music seriously if you wear your left ear bud in your right ear and your right ear bud in your left ear. — Lou Brutus

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together. — Cass McCombs

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll. — Bill Wyman

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down. — Keith Richards

Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty. — Suzi Quatro

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans. — Fats Domino

We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us. — Donald Riggio

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well. — Haley Reinhart

Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you. — Willie Nelson

Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By ... — Randall Jarrell

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. — Keith Richards

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards. — Keith Richards

I don't know how music works, I'm just glad that it does. — Lou Brutus

Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head. — Alan Freed

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen. — Moira Kelly

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. — King Tuff

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me! — Little Richard

Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing ... or producing. — Andrew Taylor

That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with. — Dave Matthes

All language is an aspiration to music. — Steve Almond

I judge people based solely on the quality of bands on the black concert t-shirts they wear. — Lou Brutus

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music. — Jason Aldean

It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now ... — Jerry Garcia

Even more than music, rock-and-roll is sex. — A.D. Aliwat

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. — Frank Zappa

Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding. — John Lennon

Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted. — Gail Ann Dorsey

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe. — Bruce Springsteen

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started. — John Oates

Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n' roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties. — Thomas Bangalter

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.' — Elvis Presley

Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard. — Alex Winston

Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off — Gerard Way

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. — Andy Biersack

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write. — Noel Gallagher

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile. — Don McLean

I'm touched by rock n' roll. I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that. — Al Jarreau

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. — Julian Cope

I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world. — Ato Essandoh

You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless. — Smokey Robinson

I soaked my soul in Rock and Roll — Stuart Blythe

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me." — Billy Joel

Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes. — Noel Gallagher

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good. — Abbie Hoffman

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

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

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

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America. — Paul Stanley

You can tell by the clothes Viki wears that music comes first in her life. — Randolph Randy Camp

The creative process is beautiful and magical thing. Whether its a song, a radio story, or a novel, it all springs from the same place in the heart. — Greg Kihn

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds. — Tip O'Neill

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. — Dan Fogelberg

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. — Ralph Ellison

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. — Tom Stoppard

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life. — Paul Simon

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. — Adrian Mitchell

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music. — Patti Smith

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music. — Billy Corgan

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band. — Bruce Springsteen