Rock Quotes

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'

Well all of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks, get into your kicks. Come back baby, rock and roll never forgets.

I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.

As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

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.

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

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

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

Rock stars, is there anything they don't know?

Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.

1991 for some people was a significant year in terms of punk rock. It was the year "punk broke".

How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old.

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

There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.

It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.

That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.

Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it.

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.

Out stretched hands and one night stands, still I can't find love.

When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.

If anybody wants to be a rock star they've gotta try hard enough. They're not gonna get it handed to them

Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories.

The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.

To all who pass that they may see, Rock 'N' Roll was a part of me.

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.

I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom.

Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By.

I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

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.

I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

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

There was no indie rock band in the 90s at the level of, like, Grizzly Bear. I listen to their records and it's crazy how good they sound. That really freaks me out.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

It was unbelievable. She was standing there, staring at him like he was a real rock star.

All language is an aspiration to music.

You got a gun, you don't have to work out.

From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?

I don't want you to be my fan. I want you to be mine.

We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds

I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.