Music of Detroit/rock and Roll

Famous quotes containing the words music, rock and/or roll:

    “We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets—we remember only.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)

    “Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion city of our God!
    He, whose word cannot be broken, Form’d for thee his own abode:
    On the rock of ages founded, What can shake thy sure repose?
    With salvation’s walls surrounded Thou may’st smile at all thy foes.”
    —John Newton (1725–1807)

    “Rock & roll doesn’t necessarily mean a band. It doesn’t mean a singer, and it doesn’t mean a lyric, really.... It’s that question of trying to be immortal.”
    —Malcolm McLaren (b. 1946)