Bob Hope Quotes

Rock and roll is my religion.

Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom.

Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

Rock 'n roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration and sly, lewd, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.

I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.

I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock 'n' roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.

Rock and roll is about having a good time.

Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.

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

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

I have no doubt that Japan will propagate to China and other countries in the Orient, whose standard of civilization is low, her new civilization, which is a product of harmonizing the Japanese and European civilizations. In a sense Japan may be said to have the mission of harmonizing Eastern and Western civilization and of propagating the new civilization; nay, I do not hesitate to declare that this is her mission

I've always considered rock 'n' roll, the music and the dancing, an art form.

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves.

That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology.

It's Only Rock and Roll.

That rock ‘n’roll, eh? That rock’n’roll, it just won’t go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into the swamp. I think the cyclical nature of the universe in which it exists demands that acquiesce to some of its rules. But it’s always waiting there, just around the corner,” he added. “Ready to make its way back through the sludge and smash through the glass ceiling, looking better than ever. Yeah, that rock’n’roll, it seems like it’s faded away sometimes, but it will never die. And there’s nothing you can do about it.