Roll Quotes

Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.

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.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

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.

The guy who could be me, but he knows when to draw the line, is John Cena. John Cena can rock 'n' roll, let me tell you.

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.

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.

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