Rock Quotes

I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.

How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

This isn't meant to make me sound interesting and rock 'n' roll, but I wouldn't want to live with me a lot of the time.

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.

We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.

It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude.

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.