Rock Quotes

Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it.

He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

I am a D.J., I am what I play.

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

You can't stop rock-n-roll!

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll.

The truth is, I’d give it all up to be a rock star.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

With a pop album you can listen to one or two songs from it, but a music album is really an experience. It's not something a whole lot of rock bands do.

Every girl wants songs written about her. Even the most hardened tattoo-covered punk rock girl would love a nice ballad written for her.

I think as a music listener you have your rock and roll dreams. I personally wouldn't want to apply that necessarily, mainly because I love music too much to mess it up.

I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.

It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve Allen Show that got me into rock music.

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasnt very hip.

I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case.

He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun.

I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.

I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.

What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.

I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, lets be honest!

My guitar wants to kill your mama.

Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.

I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it’s been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll

The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.

Rock music is stronger than sports. That's why. Rock rules. Around the world, who's more famous: Willie Mays or Paul McCartney?

Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.

I saw the movie Sid & Nancy. It was a pretty good movie. It didn't really make me a punk rock fan. But anything that's new, as long as it's good I enjoy it.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.

I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands.

I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.

I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing, sky diving, driving at night.

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.

I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

Kevin Eastman is like a Buddha, like the coolest thing in the world, like a rock star.

I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and you can sort of predict it, but a lot is left up to chance and interaction.

I've met a lot of rock stars when they come to The Simpsons, and almost every one of them I get really freaked out.