Rock Quotes

Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.

I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.

If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

I would say that longtime fans of the Rolling Stones will be thrilled with these results, and new fans will understand why they're the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world.

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

At the moment we're trying to keep what we've learnt. Because we learnt a terrific amount with 'Deep Purple In Rock,' it took six months to make that album: we think it paid off, really. I can honestly say that it's the first album we've been 100 percent satisfied with; it gave us a hell of a lot of confidence.

Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.

I like a girl to look relaxed. Tight jeans and rock t-shirts are cute!

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.