Roll Quotes

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.

Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.

It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion.

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

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.

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with.

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can be launched anywhere in the world.

I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.

I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.