Rock Quotes

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.

I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.

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'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.