Rock Quotes

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.

I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.

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.

I've often thought that my background in rock 'n' roll has gone to waste in film work. My background was that I was a rock 'n' roll drummer and I don't think I used drums in my first ten years of film scoring.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.

My God is rock'n'roll.

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.