Rock Quotes

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!'

I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.