Rock Quotes

I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.

I know my ambitions are big, but you've got to have something after rock and roll.

Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.

For music, I always just played music myself - and, I had rock bands and wrote songs and put bands together that were loud, but not especially good. That was sort of the place music had in my career.

I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary.

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

Rock and roll is commitment. Rock and roll is passion and spirit.

I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.

I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.

My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school.

I drummed in some rock bands. I asked for a drum kit when I was 15 and my parents were kind enough to buy me one and I just started playing with my buddies who played guitar.

We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.

It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)

I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions.

When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.

If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public.

Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

I'm a rock star among geeks, wonks, and nerds.

I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.

I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll.

You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.

I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.

We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension.

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion

It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music.

Rock and roll is my religion.

When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright.

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band.

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.

I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

All rock n roll is homosexual.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

We are looking at these rock 'n' roll campers, and we know what is going on in their minds because we've been there.