Rock Quotes

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.

Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.

I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do.

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.

Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion.

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.

Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want.

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

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!'