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Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

— Billy Corgan

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Rock and roll is here to stay.

— Neil Young

Rock and 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

You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very essential.

— The Edge

I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

— Gary Cherone

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

— Joe Perry

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

— Elton John

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

— Kirk Hammett

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

— Estelle

✗Opposing Perspectives

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

— Billy Corgan

Rock and roll's relatively new, in the sense of the Fifties, Sixties, right? They invented the first sort of rock stars, and they took it to excess, and then the excess became bitter, tormented. Then it became okay to succeed.

— Albert Hammond, Jr.