Rock Quotes

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go green

I'm much more into bad, trashy Belgian techno. I like that much more than rock bands. The whole idea of a rock band is so archaic.

My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.

Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!'

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

You kind of have to be like " What have you been working the last five years for? Why are you complaining?" It's essentially me talking myself out of being a crybaby indie rock butthead.

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.

We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.

Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.

I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it.

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy, just to be punk rock.

Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.

Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I've always wanted to be a rock star.

Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.

Singing, dancing, and acting! The part [of Roxie in Let It Shine] was right up my alley. Plus, the thought of playing a rock star was like a dream for me.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

A girl playing rock and roll, it's saying I own my sexuality and I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. And I think people just find that threatening.

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them.

Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

I still believe in rock and roll, it pays my bills.

I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

The best things in life are crazy.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.

I feel there is a curse on rock stars.