Rock Quotes

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

I like to go rock scrambling.

As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.

I got rock in me.

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.

Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.

We can get airplay all across the board, from CHR to Active rock.

Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.

I don't consider myself a rock star chef, I really don't. I cook for a living and I try to help out as many people as I can in my life and that's all I care about. I don't care about the fame of television, I use to a lot.

I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.