Quotes of Roll - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Malcolm McLaren

“ Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards. ”

- Keith Richards

“ 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. ”

- Billy Corgan

“ The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't. ”

- Mitch Miller

“ When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. ”

- Thomas Campbell

“ There is a wheel on the affairs of men; revolve, and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate. ”

- Unknown

“ Yet, Freedom! Yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind. ”

- Lord Byron

“ There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go. ”

- Unknown

“ Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. ”

- Edmund Spenser

“ All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion. ”

- Stephen Hawking

“ May the wind always be on your back and the sun upon your face and may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars. ”

- Johnny Depp

“ Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. ”

- Lord Byron

“ There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty. ”

- Woodrow T. Wilson

“ The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. ”

- Frank Sinatra

“ I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily- digestible garbage. This is rock and roll. I want to be a rock and roll star! Rock and roll is about shaking things up, making people act and react… ”

- Marilyn Manson

“ 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. ”

- David Byrne

“ If you're looking for youth, you're looking for longevity, just take a dose of rock 'n' roll. It keeps you going. Just like the caffeine in your coffee. Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it… ”

- Hank Ballard

“ 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. ”

- Greil Marcus

“ I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view. ”

- Franka Potente

“ For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral? ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn… ”

- Dorothee Soelle

“ Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found. ”

- John Quincy Adams

“ I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music. ”

- Nick Cave

“ Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place. ”

- Meat Loaf

“ Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. ”

- Peter York

“ When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ I must stand up in search of the truth, if I don't I only roll with the flow of the lie and make it stronger. ”

- Sovereign

“ When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish. ”

- Pooh’s Little Instruction Book

“ Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. ”

- Carl Sandburg
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