Rock Quotes

I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.

I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.

Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

I think it would be really awesome to be a rock star.

If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you.

Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

You can't kill rock and roll without a silver bullet because she's a werewolf.

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

I just wanna be a rock star!

Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

I definitely have a rock star lifestyle.

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

I'm the anti-rock star. I'm happy just to have a bottle of water.

I sold my soul to rock 'n' roll.

The whole city [Manchester] just a real rock music vibe. It reminded me a lot of where I'm from.

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

Country music belongs to America.

What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?

All she wanted was sax.

I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.

Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.

People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.

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.

I try to be a better dad and husband than I do pretend rock star.

One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide.

Rock and Roll is instant coffee.