Rock Quotes

I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

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.

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.

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.