Rock Quotes

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.

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?

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?

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.

I liked playing Morph in Mash and Peas and doing Phil Daniels in the Blur Rock Profile was a giggle too.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.

What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.