Rock Quotes

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock.

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.

I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.

I actually don't see that strong of a connection between my background as a rock 'n roller and my early films. In a way I think your musical identity in film work is determined by the jobs that come your way.

Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.

I think that episode in the third season was great. I'm really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he's a rock star.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we'd have a built-in fanbase so we could pretty much play anywhere, people would show up and rock out.

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

I'm not really this rock'n'roll chick.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid.