Rock Quotes

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

Soft rock music isn’t rock, and it ain’t music. It’s just soft.

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

Rock music is becoming stale. Let's put the fun back.

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.

The angels had guitars before they had wings.

Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.

If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one

You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay

Did you know that the percentage of young people in the crucial 'youthquake' age bracket of 15 to 24 was higher in 1973 than in 1967 ? Therefore it was glam rock that ended the war in Vietnam.

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.

I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the juke box, baby.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.

God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.

Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn't like it.

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.

It's Only Rock and Roll.

You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.

International rock star - gravy maker extraordinaire.

I love the classic trucker jacket as an icon of rock 'n' roll and rebellion.

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

DJs are the new rock stars.