Rock Quotes

I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.

In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

This album was designed to touch your soul.

A rock star never gets old!

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

Rock 'n' roll but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

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

There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

I don't want to ever be a quote-unquote rock star. I want to just be me.

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

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

Peace Love Rock and Roll!!!

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

I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.

Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

Don't tell me baby you gotta go, I got the hifi high and the lights down low.

I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on.

I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.

If somebody had told me that you have a choice of being a rock star or playing left field for the Tigers, there would not have been a choice at all. I would have said, 'Where's my locker?'

I'm down to a bottle of wine a day, but my hands still shake a bit.

You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do.