Rock Quotes

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

I'm not really this rock'n'roll chick.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid.

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again.

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.

I liked playing Morph in Mash and Peas and doing Phil Daniels in the Blur Rock Profile was a giggle too.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.