Talk:Rock and roll

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• It's a nightmare set to music.
  • Bill Cosby

• And it turns out the lingua franca of the world is not english. It's rock 'n roll.
  • Gene Simmons
• Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
  • Ani Difranco

• Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
  • Ralph Ellison

• Rock and Roll is passion, commitment, and spirit.
  • Mick Fleetwood

• You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock and roll.
  • Billy Joel

• Rock and roll used to be for kicks, nowadays it's politics.
  • Billy Joel

• Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."
  • Billy Joel

• I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day
  • KISS from their song Rock and Roll All Nite

• The Blues had a baby. They call it Rock and Roll.
  • Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry

• I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear! When I wear leather, I feel like a Black Panther!
  • Freddie Mercury

• I am the Lizard King, I can do anything!
  • Jim Morrison

• No, it hasn't, because I was in tanks and they rock and rolled quite a bit.
  • Elvis Presley, when asked if his 2-year stint in the Army changed his thoughts on rock and roll

• Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
  • Salman Rushdie