Rock And Roll

(281 votes)   The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

Frank Sinatra
1915-, American Singer and Actor

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(126 votes)   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
1945-, American Rock Journalist

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(105 votes)   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
1967-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter

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(100 votes)   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

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