Rock Quotes

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.

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.

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.

I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked and I thought their opinions sucked.

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

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

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.

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing.

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

I usually listen to classic rock and roll.

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.

People like controversy because that's what sells.

I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

Glitter is cool because that's like glam rock, but rhinestones need to die out.

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.

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

I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with.

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.

I bought me a guitar about a year ago, learned how to play in a day or so.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.

I hope I die before I get old.

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

Skating is what got me into punk rock.

All rock and roll is homosexual.

Spread your ear pollution far and wide.

Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.

Being in love is totally punk rock.

My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.

I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever.

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

You can be the most beautiful woman in the world and see yourself as hideous. You must love yourself. To look in the mirror and tell yourself that you're a rock star.

Rock 'n' roll never sleeps it just passes out.

Being in a rock n' roll and pop world, it's very easy to act like a kid.

There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.