Roll Quotes

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do.

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.

I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.

I've learned to let things roll off my back.

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.

We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.

I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.

Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel.

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all.

And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.