Keith Moon
Musician, Drummer
"I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer."
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Rock N Roll
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Freddie Mercury
Musician, Singer
"It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70."
David Lee Roth
Musician
"When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's."
Wolfman Jack
Radio Personality
"From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them."
Van Morrison
Singer-Songwriter
"I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that."
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"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."
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"We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time."
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"Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't."
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"Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it."
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"Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers."
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"When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show."
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"If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll."
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"My God is rock'n'roll."
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"The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from."
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"If you're a gay person I'd rather not be stuck in a lift with you."
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"I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight."
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"I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition."
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"Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it."
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"Music is my religion."
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"I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap."
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"NUTHIN' more fun than Rock n' Roll!"
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"This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!"
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"The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band."
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"This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress."
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"When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it."
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