Roll Quotes

I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.

We had incense and rock'n'roll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could just, like, hang out. We had a cool vibe going.

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

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.

Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

We have a beautiful program which is audacious and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success.

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

When you've got four people to get dressed to get out the door you don't really spend a lot of time on yourself. But that's the way I roll anyway. I was never one to do my hair and make-up just to go to the market, so it's not that much different. If I get a little eye cream on, I feel I'm ahead of myself.

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.

Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.

After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

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

I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.