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You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.


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NIKKI SIXX You can't stop rock-n-roll!
DEE SNIDER I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.
BILL BRUFORD Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
IAN DURY Sex and drugs and rock and roll
IAN DURY If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
ABBIE HOFFMAN Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
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BRAD TOLINSKI I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.
ROBERT PLANT I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.
PATTY DUKE If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.
GRACE SLICK Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.
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ELVIS PRESLEY I don't believe people playing rock n' roll should have crowns. We're not kings and quee...
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TANYA TUCKER I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.
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B. B. KING There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
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PETE WENTZ I'm a rock and roll singer.
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RAF SIMONS Rock and roll is here to stay.
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ADAM CLAYTON I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.
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THE EDGE You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.
KAREN KINGSBURY I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
CALEB LANDRY JONES I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.
KESHA T-shirt and jeans style now is where I'm at. Maybe a little rock 'n' roll T-shirt and je...
JOSH HUTCHERSON If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being arou...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
ACE FREHLEY I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.
ADAM CLAYTON If you're looking for light entertainment, you can't get much lighter than 'Bye Bye Bird...
TERRY TEACHOUT 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 Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
BEN FOLDS I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.
DAVE GROHL I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don&#...
BOBBIE ANN MASON There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't contr...
SHANNON HOON You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and hav...
JOEL SALATIN I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
JOAN JETT I have always believed that there is nothing greater than a life in rock n' roll - it has to be ...
ATUL GAWANDE Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.
AHMET ERTEGUN You can't go home with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't sleep with the Rock and Roll Hall o...
BILLY JOEL I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
ADAM LEVINE 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 I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll.
CARMEN ELECTRA I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-rol...
ROBBY KRIEGER I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can&...
RALPH STANLEY See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million diff...
EVAN DANDO I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.
GRACE SLICK Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs.
DIMEBAG DARRELL If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
JOHN LENNON If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock...
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JOHN COLTRANE It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.
RICK SPRINGFIELD You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in...
JONI MITCHELL I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I ...
DANIEL CRAIG 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 Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
VANCE PACKARD 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 I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a gr...
TAYLOR HAWKINS You can't buy being a rock star.
TRAVIS SCOTT If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock an...
KEITH RICHARDS I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesse...
LUPE FIASCO The guy can just roll the rock, period.
CLAY OGDEN The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back roo...
PAUL STANLEY I don't know what metalcore is. I know what rock n' roll is... It's not rocket science.
ANDY BIERSACK I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes...
MANUEL PUIG Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.
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PAUL FARMER There's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and St...
AHMET ERTEGUN Rock and Roll.
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GENE SIMMONS Anybody who has ever played in bars has played 'Keep Your Hands to Yourself.' It's a mon...
CHRIS STAPLETON If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's ...
CASS ELLIOT The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never a...
ABBIE HOFFMAN Great rock n' roll comes from suburbia.
ALVARO ENRIGUE I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Ne...
JORJA FOX You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.
WARREN CUCCURULLO If you're looking for youth, you're looking for longevity, just take a dose of rock 'n' roll. It kee...
HANK BALLARD 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 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 You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
HENRY KISSINGER Guitar music or rock n' roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but ...
ALEX TURNER We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll o...
JOHN LENNON Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't ...
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"Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mea...
RICK RIORDAN Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hu...
RICK RIORDAN They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but large...
RICK RIORDAN I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder.
RICK RIORDAN This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..."
"Repair boy." RICK RIORDAN Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?"
"Yeah," Percy said. "He sla...
RICK RIORDAN Percy scowled. "I-I know you."
Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you?
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth's face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and g...
RICK RIORDAN Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!"

He slung his M16 onto his bac...
RICK RIORDAN There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your ...
RICK RIORDAN Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."
Hazel tried not to laugh. "W...
RICK RIORDAN Hey!" said the guy in the video. "Greetings from your friends at Camp Half-Blood, et cetera. This is...
RICK RIORDAN Life is only precious because it ends, kid.
RICK RIORDAN Now, come over here so I can pat you down."
"But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." RICK RIORDAN Can you surf really well, then?"
I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.
"Je...
RICK RIORDAN Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed!
RICK RIORDAN He wondered if...his dad, Zeus, would write him a note: “Please excuse Jason from eternal damnatio...
RICK RIORDAN Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of th...
RICK RIORDAN Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning
bolts t...
RICK RIORDAN If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron w...
RICK RIORDAN Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo."

Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be...
RICK RIORDAN The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. “Miss me?”

The satyrs fell over...
RICK RIORDAN My faithful companion, Zoe Nightshade, has passed into the stars. I must have a new lieutenant. And ...
RICK RIORDAN Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be mu...
RICK RIORDAN