11 quotes about Rock and Roll



A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
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As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive -- and it still informs other kinds of music.
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The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.
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Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
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There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t.
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Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.
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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.
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The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
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No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
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