Rock Quotes

I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.

I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!

I have to make rock records occasionally.

We had incense and rock'n'roll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could just, like, hang out. We had a cool vibe going.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

I do think I have a rebellious, metal-loving rock chick inside of me.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.

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

In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

Rock fans are pretty fickle, too, you know.

Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.

It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.

I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.

I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.