Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.
Oh, I’ll fight you,” she promised, her eyes clear of shadows. “That’s the way I roll.
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted. . . you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.
The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.
Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.
Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.
When I started Rolling Stone in November 1967, the magazine's initial chapter was to cover rock & roll music with intelligence and respect. Even then, we knew that the fervor sweeping our generation encompassed more than just music.
I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people
We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!
Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
When peace like a river, attendeth my way When sorrow like sea billows roll Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say It is well, it is well, with my soul.
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have been made by a gang of sullen, sun-deprived rock & roll boys fighting off adulthood tooth and nail.
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent.
Great negotiators never lose sight of what they are aiming at, which is not an agreement per se, but a desired outcome. . . . Getting to yes is easy, all you have to do is roll over. It's getting what you want that's hard.
I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.
So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again.