148 Roll Quotes

Following is our list of roll quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about rock and roll.

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Famous Roll Quotes

Time to toss the dice — Robert Jordan

I roll with Ladies just as tropic as the chronic in my pocket Cop it, Crush it, Roll it, Spark it, and mix it in with the chocolate — Lloyd Banks

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll. — Keith Richards

Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin an juice Lay back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind. — Snoop Dogg

Every single roll I had has been definitely because of my physic. — Martyn Ford

Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice. - Snoop Dogg

Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice. — Snoop Dogg

Roll the weed up Somebody turn the beat up While I continue to spit relax and kick yo feet up Mac game so cold make yo nose runny Mac game so cold takin' hoes money — Mac Dre

Life is like a dice, so watch the ones you're rolling with. — LeCrae

Life is like a dice game; one roll could land you in jail, or cuttin' cake, blowin' kisses in the rice game. — Jay Electronica

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again. — Emily Giffin

Drop it like it's hot. — Snoop Dogg

The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late — H. Rider Haggard

Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.] — Ovid

I'll ride the wave, where it takes me! - Eddie Vedder

I'll ride the wave, where it takes me! — Eddie Vedder

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn. — Nikki Sixx

Short Roll Quotes

  • A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other. — George Bernard Shaw
  • McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. — Joseph McCarthy
  • A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking. — Lemmy Kilmister
  • We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away. — Augustus
  • Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. — David Carson
  • Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way. — Axl Rose
  • I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer. — Axl Rose
  • The only negative thing about murder is that when you kills someone they can no longer suffer — Varg Vikernes
  • I love your sushi roll, hotter than wasabi. I race for your love, Shake-n-Bake, Ricky Bobby — Drake
  • It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me. — Chuck Berry

Roll Image Quotes

Roll quote When life knocks you down, roll over and look at the stars.
When life knocks you down, roll over and look at the stars.
If the risk is high, the reward is high... Why not roll the dice? - Tyron Woodley quote

If the risk is high, the reward is high... Why not roll the dice? — Tyron Woodley

Take the best that exists and make it better. - Henry Royce quote

Take the best that exists and make it better. — Henry Royce

Roll quote Everybody want to change the world, but nobody whats to change the toilet paper roll.
Everybody want to change the world, but nobody whats to change the toilet paper roll.
The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll. - Muddy Waters quote

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll. — Muddy Waters

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old. - Chuck Berry quote

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old. — Chuck Berry

I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography. - Scoot McNairy quote

I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography. — Scoot McNairy

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones. - Keith Richards quote

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones. — Keith Richards

Rich Roll Quotes

When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault. — Eric Cantona

And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great tune to which the planets roll! — Frances Sargent Osgood

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich. — Bob Geldof

This is the national equivalent of having no savings, your credit card maxed out, you didn't renew your insurance, and now your house has burned down. The only way we can start to solve this is rolling back the tax cuts for the rich, which would save about $70 billion. — Diana DeGette

People roll their eyes and say, "Oh god, he's not rich or famous." I say it's relative. I mean, look at me: I'm 115 pounds and I grew up without money. To me, I'm rich because I don't have to worry about paying rent. I don't think about money now. — Bradford Cox

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order. — Dee Snider

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat. — Mahatma Gandhi

O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Rock And Roll Quotes

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans. — Fats Domino

Rock and roll is about having a good time, so no matter where you are right now blast some music and forget about lifes problems. — Andy Biersack

When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me. — Axl Rose

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'. — John Lennon

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live. — Joey Ramone

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! - Kurt Cobain

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! — Kurt Cobain

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

Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That's what rock and roll is about. — Pete Townshend

I guess you could say there are two Slashes. There's the crazy, rock-and-roll Slash, he's wild. And then there's the real Slash- he collects miniature soaps and treats his hookers real nice. — Slash

The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it good on a horse's ass. I like to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I like to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way. — Wesley Willis

Rock N Roll Quotes

Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff. — Fats Domino

Life is beautiful. Be thankful for everything. Destroy your ego. Free hugs. Sing your hearts out in the street. Rock ‘n roll. — Ariana Grande

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture. — Thelonious Monk

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity. — Eric Clapton

One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue. — James Hetfield

I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver. - Nina Blackwood

I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver. — Nina Blackwood

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. — Keith Richards

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. — Freddie Mercury

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music. — Neil Young

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself. — Johnny Winter

Rock And Roll Music Quotes

Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy. — Joan Jett

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues. — Little Richard

Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes. — Elvis Presley

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well. — Haley Reinhart

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music. — Graham Nash

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll. — Bob Seger

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there. — Dave Grohl

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar — Eddie Van Halen

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture. — Etta James

Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners. — Alan Freed

Rock N Roll Music Quotes

A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that. — Elvis Presley

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music. — Bobby Vinton

Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar. — Dave Edmunds

Before Elvis there was nothing. — John Lennon

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't. — Johnny Depp

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.' — Joan Jett

The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from. — Clarence Clemons

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel. — Buddy Holly

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV. — Dan Fogelberg

Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul? — Don McLean

Eye Roll Quotes

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. - Jim Carrey

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. — Jim Carrey

'You're Dionysus,' I said. 'The god of wine.' Mr. D rolled his eyes. 'What do they say these days, Grover? Do the children say "Well duh!"?' 'Y-yes, Mr. D.' 'Then, "Well, duh!" Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?' 'You're a god.' 'Yes, child.' 'A god. You.' — Rick Riordan

The warrior (Zsadist) rolled his black eyes. "Come on, man. What does it matter to me? You, Tohr. Britney Spears. — J.R. Ward

Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains. — Alexander Pope

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone. — Dante Alighieri

You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building. — Rick Riordan

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. — Alexander Pope

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes. — John Keats

Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” Piper leaned over the console. “Are you sure they’re Roman?” Leo rolled his eyes. “No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they’re Roman! — Rick Riordan

I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge. — Tori Amos

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Quotes

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing. — Steve Perry

Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha! — Dave Grohl

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does. — Waylon Jennings

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years. — Conan O'Brien

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club. — Micky Dolenz

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. — Paul Stanley

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in. — Nancy Sinatra

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. — Bernie Worrell

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'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't. — Debby Boone

Honor Roll Quotes

What are you gonna fill your life up with when you don't have that ultimate satisfaction or peace in your life? You try to fill it up with wealth, pleasure, honor, power, sex, drugs and Rock and Roll to try to feel good. — Dion DiMucci

It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys. — Terry McMillan

Don't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me! — Eric Thomas

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor. — Grover Cleveland

I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor. — Carl Schurz

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes. — E. L. Konigsburg

On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis. — James Wolcott

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 Wilson

I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure. — Henry David Thoreau

Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below. — Isaac Watts

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More Roll Quotes

I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it.... I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. — Clara Barton

There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting. — Keith Richards

When I bought the Rolls Royce they thought it was leased, then I bought that new Ferrari hater rest in peace. — Meek Mill

Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino. — Julius Nyerere

We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react. — Erwin Rommel

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may. — Jimmy Buffett

Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet;Lie still, dry dust, secure of change. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. — Warren Buffett

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. — John Muir

Let unexpected incidents roll off you like raindrops dancing down your bedroom window. — Mod Sun

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done? — Josemaria Escriva

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. — Keith Richards

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.) — Henry Royce

I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school. — Ernest Shackleton

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them. — Ken Blanchard

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