Rock Quotes

It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor.

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white.

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.

I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it?

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

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?