Rock Quotes

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

Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.

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.

DJs are the new rock stars.

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.

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.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar.

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

I'm the type of rock star that likes to have a girlfriend, you know?

Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.

What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.

Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers

This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.

I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.

I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n' roll lifestyle and still be romantic.

NUTHIN' more fun than Rock n' Roll!

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want.

You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.

I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.

I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.

This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress.

Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.

It don't spit or swear or sleep around. I've always maintained I'm the most radical rock'n'roll singer Britain has ever seen.

Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.

You didn't have to be a huge rock star; you just had to do well enough to continue doing what you wanted to do. It wasn't about hitting the jackpot, it was about sustainability.

If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.

Whether it be a reggae song, rock song, a love song, the main thing was just to, whatever I was feeling, to try to capture that emotion.

I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock climbing teaching & does not mean poor training, but only a strong-headedness.

When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.

You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.

Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.

Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it.

San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in the country.