Rock Quotes

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that.

I'm real critical of myself. I think a lot of what I've done is boring indie rock. I didn't intend it to be that way, but somehow milk gets added to everything.

Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.

I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.

I want to stick in live television. And I'm hoping to continue on in a second season of Rock Star. Plus, I've got my 'Barely Brooke' swimsuit line with Venus USA and my new calendar is coming out.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.

I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.

Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.

I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.

I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.

In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.

I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!

I love a little more driving rock and roll vibe and that kind of music has always spoke to me. I guess it just rubs off when I'm writing music.

I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.

A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.

I don't really inject the rock 'n' roll thing, what I take from rock 'n' roll is probably the melodies and the musical behind it.

"Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock

I love what Joe Eszterhas written about Bill Clinton. It's hilarious, Clinton as a rock star, which is the way we should remember him.

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

There's this celebrity thing that goes along with making records or being a rock star. I'm into this celebrity thing just enough to let me go on making records and making a living out of it.

Along with rock climbing, I hike and I like to go to the beach, anything outdoors and anything that takes me out of the everyday.

It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.

I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool.

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thing is that it's the first time that David Lee Roth has had any publicity in ten years.

Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.

You know, if Nicole Kidman was a rock star, she'd be alot more professional than me, I'm sorry.

I wanted to be a rock star.

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.

Rock and roll has had a powerful anti-Christian subtheme for decades now.

Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.

Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.

I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.