Roll Quotes

God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll.

I'm spoiled - in all ways. I've been in a rock 'n' roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different.

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.

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.

The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.

A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

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.

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

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.