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rock music
«I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.»
Author: Aretha Franklin
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rock and, rock and roll, Rock and roll music, rock music, wholesome
«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.»
Author: David Byrne
(Guitarist, Singer)
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informs, rock and, rock and roll, Rock and roll music, rock music
«We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know? And it was such a turnaround, I guess it caught people by surprise.»
Author: Karen Carpenter
(Singer)
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Music
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came out, Hard rock, rock music, The Hard, turnaround
«Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.»
Author: Keith Richards
(Guitarist)
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downwards, rock and, rock and roll, Rock and roll music, rock music, roll
«'Rock' [music]. . . is the expression of elemental passions, and at rock festivals it assumes a cultic character, a form of worship, in fact, in opposition to Christian worship. People are, so to speak, released from themselves by the experience of being part of a crowd and by the emotional shock of rhythm, noise, and special lighting effects. However, in the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.»
Author: Pope Benedict XVI
(Pope)
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«Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
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Music
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brutalization, church music, commercial, contemporary, cultural, loot, looting, Negro, obscene, Rock and roll music, rock music
«Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
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Music
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«Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.»
Author: Ani Difranco
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Anger,
Men,
Women
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