Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
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Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
BEN FOLDS I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
IAN AXEL There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock ...
DAVE GROHL Rock is not dead, but it is The Walking Dead, with a few groups still trying to survive in a zombie ...
MICHAEL P. NAUGHTON He liked Kid Rock and most rock 'n' roll.
EDWARD GOSWICK Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
IAN DURY I'm a rock and roll singer.
ADAM ANT There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.
RAF SIMONS Rock and roll is here to stay.
NEIL YOUNG I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
CALEB LANDRY JONES Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about ...
LETA BLAKE If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
KURT COBAIN Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.
BILLY CORGAN You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.
RICK JAMES It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
ROBERT PLANT I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.
DAVE GROHL America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it...
TAYLOR HAWKINS It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.
STEVEN ADLER Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
VANCE PACKARD Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
YOKO ONO Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
CHARLIE WATTS There's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and St...
AHMET ERTEGUN I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It'...
CAITLIN MORAN I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just...
ADAM CLAYTON I have always believed that there is nothing greater than a life in rock n' roll - it has to be ...
ATUL GAWANDE I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.
PAUL WESTERBERG In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.
YAHOO SERIOUS I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
ARETHA FRANKLIN I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.
TRE COOL I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.
MATISYAHU Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
BERNIE WORRELL Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.
JOEY RAMONE I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.
ADAM CLAYTON Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish any...
GG ALLIN I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
ADAM LEVINE Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used ...
MEAT LOAF Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't ...
ALICE COOPER I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
HALEY REINHART I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll an...
EDWARD FURLONG You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very ...
THE EDGE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.
RICK SPRINGFIELD I really don't feel the need to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because, at the end of the ...
ALEX LIFESON I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
CARA DELEVINGNE Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
LARRY WILLIAMS So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
GAVIN DEGRAW What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?
PETE WENTZ 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understan...
KURT COBAIN I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutiona...
NICK CAVE If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about...
CHUCK BERRY Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss peopl...
GERARD WAY Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps w...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.
PATTI SMITH When rock & roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.
PAUL STANLEY There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.
NEIL YOUNG Every actor I know pretty much wants to be a rock n' roll star, and we'd all give it up to b...
DAVID COSTABILE See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million diff...
EVAN DANDO Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.
KID ROCK After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these l...
NANCY SINATRA Anybody who has ever played in bars has played 'Keep Your Hands to Yourself.' It's a mon...
CHRIS STAPLETON Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or ro...
ROBERT REDFORD Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.
RITCHIE BLACKMORE We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. F...
DAVID JOHANSEN I started off doing rock 'n' roll, and then I went back, a couple of albums ago, into writing rock '...
JOHN CALE I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a gr...
TAYLOR HAWKINS I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had po...
DAVE GROHL There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.
TINA TURNER Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.
LITTLE RICHARD Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
BILLY CORGAN You can take and nail two sticks together like they've never been nailed together before and some fo...
GEORGE CARLIN There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks...
BRIAN MOLKO I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.
JON LANDAU I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoust...
GRAHAM NASH I don't believe people playing rock n' roll should have crowns. We're not kings and quee...
PATTI SMITH I don't know what metalcore is. I know what rock n' roll is... It's not rocket science.
ANDY BIERSACK From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like ...
WOLFMAN JACK Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.
JUICE NEWTON Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basica...
THE EDGE You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.
RICK JAMES Rock and Roll.
LOU REED I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be ...
RITCHIE BLACKMORE Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very mi...
JONI MITCHELL I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the sta...
BRENDAN COYLE I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time....
MANISH DAYAL When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to chang...
LITTLE RICHARD The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never a...
ABBIE HOFFMAN I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never go...
NANCY SINATRA I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicio...
MANUEL PUIG Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's w...
ELVIS PRESLEY Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band ne...
STEVEN ADLER I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego ...
STEVE PERRY Rock n' roll seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die.
ALEX TURNER A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, act...
CHRIS JERICHO Rock n' roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the 'roll' and called it 'rock...
TOM PETTY My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.
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BEN JOHNSTON A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes...
BEN JONSON There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
BEN BECHT Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our par...
BEN HECHT The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life...
BEN SWEETLAND