Rock Quotes

Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

Progressive rock was happening.

I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.

If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.

World Play is very '70s arena rock, very raw and in your face, and that's what we wanted. We recorded it in a very off-the-cuff manner and didn't really plan out how we were going to play. My solos are first takes.

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'

I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.

I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.

I would rather be a security guard than a rock star.