Rock Quotes

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.

By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.

To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

You have to be kind of sensitive to be in rock and roll.

It takes a real man to wear silk! There aren't a lot of manly men in rock and roll because it's all about cross-dressing to a degree. You have to be kind of sensitive to be in rock and roll.

I'm trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, 'I'm different. I'm not just a comedian.' I'm trying to become a rock star.

I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do.

When I started out I thought I might make a little money, get some girls, get a taste of the rock 'n' roll life. It's gone way beyond that.

I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white

Being a rock star is really a 24-hour-a-day job, and you really can't escape it.

I don't have any rock star demeanor to me. I just can't pull that off.

I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.

Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as well as the other.

I'm no less rock 'n' roll than anyone else, I'm pretty normal.

My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.

I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both.

All you care about is how punk rock you feel when you wake up in the morning.

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!

You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.

For me, it's more about keeping it simple with a rock and roll edge. It's all about accessorising.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.

Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.

Christians are a lot like dinosaurs - about to become extinct.

Rock n roll is about drugs.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

I really want to be a rock star.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with punk rock. That's what enlightened me to not being afraid to express myself.

If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.

I am not a rock star or a movie star; I'm a businessperson. I definitely know who my friends are. I'm much more open and trusting than, say, my daughter is.

I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all.

I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist.

To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.

It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.

On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely.