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" After a post-Bill Berry softening with albums like 'Up' and 'Reveal,' R.E.M. seems to be toughening up again; on the strength of the first single, 'Discoverer,' the band's new record looks to continue with the same muscular rock and roll that defined its last album, 'Accelerate.' "
Karan Mahajan
" After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll. "
Rick James
" All it takes to become president is money and a certain kind of power. Being president is the first thing I can shoot for, not the highest. It may come to a point where people take rock and roll musicians more seriously than they take politicians. It may eventually turn out that musicians have more credibility. "
Todd Rundgren
" All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. "
Janis Joplin
" A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts. "
Wes Montgomery
" 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. "
Steve Albini
" 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. "
Slash
" Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer. "
Aaron Johnson
" Authentic rock and roll is a sound that I've always been drawn to with bands like Brand New and Jimmy Eat World. "
Ryan Hurd
" Blackfoot was one of the ultimate live bands... there was no pretense, no gimmickry; it was sound, lights, and rock and roll. Our whole goal was to be terrifying... to strike fear and cause havoc in a closing band's minds. "
Rickey Medlocke
" Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in Little Richard and Chuck Berry. "
Angus Young
" But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die. "
James Young
" By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll. "
Kelli O'Hara
" Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity. "
John Lennon
" Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen. "
Little Richard
" Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll. "
Yoko Ono
" Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me. "
Kurt Cobain
" Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out. "
Steven Adler
" Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around. "
Mac Davis
" For me, it's more about keeping it simple with a rock and roll edge. It's all about accessorising. "
Lulu
" Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll. "
Ted Nugent
" I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame. "
Brenda Lee
" I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely. "
Paul Stanley
" Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only. "
Ritchie Blackmore
" I believe that rock and roll can really make a huge impact on people's lives. "
Ed Kowalczyk
" I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll. "
Patty Duke
" 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. "
Adam Clayton
" I didn't think you could just become a rock and roll singer. "
Tom Petty
" I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial. "
Chris Robinson
" I did the whole rock and roll thing that's coming up. I think you're going to enjoy that! 'Burt Rocks', it's called. I like that he's a dreamer; I like how positive he is. There's a lot of things I think I can learn from Burt. "
Garret Dillahunt
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