Rock Quotes

I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.

I'm ready to rock and roll.

Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.

I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.

Today is a great day, not only of healing and reconciliation, but also coming together. I'm so glad the whole Little Rock Nine was alive and here to see this.

I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on.

If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it.

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.

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

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.