Rock Quotes

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.

After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad.

I don't date rock 'n' rollers. I just marry them.

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.

I'm also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

Rock on out.

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

Rock 'n' roll... but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.

I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure.

I think rock records tend to be very expensive.

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

I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.

Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

Progressive rock was happening.

I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.

If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.