Rock Quotes

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

I saw 'Tintin' in Europe - it is 'Indiana Jones' on steroids. Unbelievable. What a fantastic movie. Steven Spielberg, you rock the house. And working with those young English guys like Edgar Wright, and also Peter Jackson; what a great combination.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.

And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.

We're a rock group. we're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.

I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.