"Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide."
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"We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll."
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"I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band."
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"Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong."
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"I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled."
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"You can't kill rock and roll without a silver bullet because she's a werewolf."
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"Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you."
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"Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back."
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"Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll."
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"Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter."
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"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."
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"Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer."
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"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."
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"Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke."
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"I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work."
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"If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story."
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"I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me."
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"Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man."
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"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity."
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"The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in...The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help."
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