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I don't know that there's a division between American and British, European, South American, Asian sensibilities when it comes to rock n' roll or, really, any form of music. Songs travel, and people take them into their lives in all different kinds of unpredictable and really untraceable ways.
Greil Marcus
Music
Travel
People
Different Kinds
Ways
Kinds
Unpredictable
Take
Songs
Division
Between
Know
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
South
American
Roll
Any
Different
Form
Sensibilities
Them
Asian
Really
European
Lives
British
Rock n' roll doesn't change. All the idiocies and pretension continue.
Harry Shearer
Change
Pretension
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Continue
Roll
For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home.
Henry Rollins
Home
Great
Me
World
Great Deal
Thinking
Sun
Besides
City
Memphis
Studio
Put
Leads
Over
Also
Deal
Rock
Always
Rock-N-Roll
Been
Lot
Roll
Legendary
Holds
Which
Meaning
Helped
Map
Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.
Henry Rollins
Business
Picture
Nation
Record
Mention
Industry
Rock
Motion
Motion Picture
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Revolutionized
Radio
I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us had any instruments.
Ian Rankin
Musical
Would
Had
Instruments
None
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Been
Roll
Any
Loved
Us
Star
Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - and well into the '60s - was two and a half minutes. It's very hard to put that much songwriting into two and a half minutes.
J. D. Souther
Half
Think
Back
Record
Minutes
Records
Put
Songwriting
Well
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Very
Roll
Length
Average
Much
Hard
Early
Two
As things mature - whether they be real estate, rock n' roll, politics, festivals, radio - there's an efficiency that develops, and with it, very often, comes some soul-crushing truths.
James Murphy
Politics
Real Estate
Some
Be Real
Develops
Rock
Real
Rock-N-Roll
Very
Efficiency
Festivals
Mature
Truths
Roll
Often
Estate
Whether
Radio
Things
Rock music was the death of jazz in a way. I know there's a bunch of people who say jazz isn't dead, but I mean, rock 'n roll, you play three chords to 20,000 people; jazz, you play 20,000 chords to three people.
Jamie Hince
Death
Music
You
People
Three
Jazz
Way
Say
Know
Dead
Rock
Rock Music
Rock-N-Roll
Bunch
Roll
Mean
Who
Chords
Play
Democracy can tie your hands in a rock 'n' roll band, you know? It can be a great thing, but if you've got a certain amount of vision and you write a lot of songs, it's sometimes better to have your own band and make your own decisions.
Jason Isbell
Great
Democracy
You
Vision
Better
Sometimes
Band
Own
Write
Songs
Know
Great Thing
Make
Tie
Rock
Got
Rock-N-Roll
Lot
Hands
Roll
Decisions
Certain
Your
Thing
Amount
I know it's financially lucrative to go out on my own, but I don't like it. It's really hard work, just the performance aspect. I like people who look like they've been together for too long and sound like they've been together too long. I like rock n' roll bands.
Jason Isbell
Work
Hard Work
Together
People
Long
Own
Too
Out
Financially
My Own
Performance
Like
Know
Look
Rock
Sound
Go
Rock-N-Roll
Been
Bands
Roll
Just
Really
Aspect
Hard
Who
Lucrative
Rock n' roll is a pretty fun job.
Jenny Lewis
Job
Pretty
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Fun
Gangsta rap was the most important movement since the beginning of rock n' roll.
Jerry Heller
Important
Beginning
Gangsta
Rap
Since
Most
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Movement
The Most Important
I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'
Jesse Stone
Music
Thought
Black
White
Stations
Jockey
Black Music
Shake
Rattle
Had
He
Written
Freed
New
Name
Named
Disc
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Up
Roll
Refused
Laid
Tune
Play
Alan
Needed
I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock n' roll audience for one night to keep them honest.
Jim Carroll
Face
Poet
Once
One-Night
Poets
He
Most
Sing
Audience
Rock
Said
Rock-N-Roll
Loudly
Roll
Wants
Them
Should
Keep
Right
Night
Honest
There were lots of songs that were on 'It Still Moves' that I had written, and we had played - rehearsed, but also played live a couple of times - that could've gone on 'At Dawn', but we always knew we wanted to make a record that was more quote-unquote 'rock n' roll.'
Jim James
Gone
Live
Record
More
Dawn
Had
Songs
Written
Knew
Couple
Also
Make
Rock
Always
Still
Rock-N-Roll
Were
Lots
Times
Roll
Moves
Wanted
Rehearsed
Played
I wanted to emulate music from America - young punks playing rock n' roll is what it was. I read part of Keith Richards' autobiography, and it was totally parallel with me, learning from American records.
Jimmy Page
Music
Me
Learning
Young
Parallel
Totally
Records
Part
Read
Emulate
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
America
American
Roll
Autobiography
Wanted
Richards
Keith Richards
Playing
I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
Joan Jett
Good
Band
Everything
Out
Kind
Find
See
Per
Seem
Fact
Miss
Know
Tame
Does
Rock
Go
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Any
Just
Manhattan
Good Band
Hard
Even
I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.
Joan Jett
Life
Music
Balance
My Life
Think
Out
Able
More
Like
Rock
Still
Go
Rock-N-Roll
Get
Roll
Going
Hard
Hard Rock
Play
Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.
Joan Jett
People
Have Fun
Out
Willing
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Get
Roll
Just
Fun
Why
Playing
The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n' roll thing going on.
Joe Perry
Good
Beatles
Band
Cute
Changed
Good Looks
Everything
Clean-Cut
Had
Combination
Looks
Rock
Real
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Going
Just
Board
Across
Right
Thing
There's no doubt arena shows are exciting, but you don't get that up close and personal kind of vibe, and that's what rock n' roll is all about for me.
Joe Perry
Me
You
Doubt
Kind
No Doubt
About
Arena
Exciting
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Up
Close
Get
Personal
Roll
Vibe
Shows
Being in a rock n' roll and pop world, it's very easy to act like a kid.
Joey McIntyre
World
Kid
Easy
Like
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Very
Roll
Being
Pop
Act
Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.
Joey Ramone
Me
Lifeblood
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Very
Roll
Special
I think as far as themes, 'Hedwig' is about what music meant to you as a kid and how rock n' roll can save you; that is definitely part of it.
John Cameron Mitchell
Music
You
Think
Kid
Definitely
About
Part
Rock
How
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
As Far As
Far
Themes
Meant
Save
I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.
John Dykstra
Photography
College
Doors
Airplane
Photographers
Had
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Lot
Bands
Roll
Done
The Doors
Worked
Who
Many
Jefferson
Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n' roll.
John Mellencamp
Music
You
Beatles
Together
Country
Think
Changed
Tremendously
Elvis
Musical
Kid
Williams
Pretty
Totally
Invasion
Put
Country Music
Rock
Got
Rock-N-Roll
Up
Roll
Oh
Hank
Difference
Hank Williams
Far
Far Away
English
Away
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