Rock Quotes

I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.

It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude.

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

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

I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.

We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.

My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.

I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

But my everyday music is classic rock. It's what I relate to the most and where my heart is.

You know, he's a bit of a rock star, but I think he's consciously learnt how to make people feel comfortable around him. Because otherwise, how could anyone act opposite him? The whole time you'd be thinking, 'My god, it's Johnny Depp!'

I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.