Rock Quotes

It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor.

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white.

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy.

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that's what we're needing! We've needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o'clock.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.

I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it?

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.

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.