Top 1200 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time.

There's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to Phil Collins.

I was into this one guy that was like, punk and cool and rock 'n roll. So I went out and bought black high top Converse.

Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.

I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

Leaving stage with a bloody scalp, it's rock & roll, I guess, but I want some hair at the end of the tour.

I'm just trying to get those marquee victories and continue to get those accomplishments so when the time comes and the vote is cast, hopefully my spot is secured in the Boxing Hall of Fame.

I am humbled that Arnold Schwarzenegger will be inducting me into the WWE Hall of Fame. The kindness and support that Arnold has shown me over the years is truly overwhelming.

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.

My emotions are very simple and always have been about the Hall of Fame. It's something that I had absolutely nothing to do with and had no control over, so I never thought much about it, to be frank.

When I started playing the game of baseball, the more I played and the better numbers I got, the more I started thinking about the Hall of Fame. But I never thought I had a chance to be there.

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

I was trained at classical piano as a youngster back in PA. To rebel, I bought a drum set and played in some rock & roll bands. In college I picked up a guitar and became obsessed with practicing which led to playing guitar in indie rock bands in the mid 90's. Which led me to Los Angeles.

There's a panic, a rush, to this 'achievement' of fame. There's also the ambivalence of fame: the love of it and the hatred of it. We sometimes hate the famous while, at the same time, straining to achieve fame oneself.

I love Chloe Sevigny's style - the way she manages to add a touch of rock n' roll to every look.

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

The motto goes: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll. I prefer: Love, Hugs and Hip-Hop Soul.

I'm not much of a political person and even if I was, look, Rock 'n' Roll is supposed to be fun and sexy and a little bit dangerous.

If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.

Like I say, it depends on how you do rock-'n'-roll. If you do it right then I think people will appreciate it for what it is.

People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock 'n roll is on there because it's another mode of expression.

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

The numbers in women in rock 'n' roll and metal are pretty much growing a lot, which is a great thing.

Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn't like it.

The Ramones are an original rock and roll group of 1975, and their songs are brief, to the point, and every one a potential hit single.

I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.

I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.

We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very venerable place to perform. I'd never heard of anyone going into the Hall and kind of standing on the seats and playing throughout the aisles and having the audience stand on the seats. So when we did that in 2013, even for me it was a shock.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

People still think I led a rock and roll lifestyle. I was in my kitchen 100 hours a week; I didn't have time to do that.

Guitars, there was rock 'n' roll. Saxophone, jazz. Now we have the computer and there's this electronic thing happening in music that is somewhat superhuman.

I am so disconnected from the world of rock 'n' roll. I was always peripheral, partly because of the drug culture. I was not involved in that.

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

What I ate for breakfast on school mornings was one buttered roll--a soft roll, not a hard roll--and one cup of cocoa; any attempt to alter this menu I regarded as a plot to poison me.

Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

I started out dabbling in rock and roll; then I did playback, and I have also sung for my own songs on screen.

Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.

Dad had a way of defining himself. He couldn't put his finger on whether it was rock 'n' roll or country.

I think I bought into that whole rock n' roll lifestyle, and all that does in the end is kill ya. So I don't recommend it to anyone.

I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.

I'm a rock 'n' roll guy, really. I'm a big fan of Elvis. I got "Heartbreak Hotel" tattooed on my chest.

We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.

A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television - by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame - has always called my name. And after seeing 'True Detective,' can there be any doubt that the storytelling on TV is as genius as it gets?

I like working with modern sounds in the studio as much as I'm happy to work with a basic rock n' roll format.

For me, I was really struggling because I was Scott Hall in the gym and Scott Hall in the grocery store and in the ring. Until I got a gimmick, a look, and got to be a character, that's when I started making strides. As Scott Hall, I didn't have a gimmick, so I didn't know what to do.

To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else.

I'm pretty excited: to be inducted into the Hall of Fame is a massive achievement... and to be inducted with Oscar de la Hoya and Felix Trinidad, two great fighters, is a massive honour for me and my family.

I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.

I love rock and roll and loved getting on wrestling mats since I was six, and I have never been ashamed of it.

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

I like Joan Jett's 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll' because it's got a nice low singing voice.

Being in the Hall of Fame is where any player wants to be at the end of his career. It's somewhat of a last step for a player in terms of their career, and it's a place where you'll always be remembered for what you accomplished.