Rock Quotes

I don't think rock music has any positive function.

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.

Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team.

This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians.

To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.

Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

I feel there is a curse on rock stars.

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

Nobody likes to hear a f**king rock star talk about his problems

If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.

I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock n roll and ex-wives. In that order.

So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.

The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ. The two are melded together in ways both unpredictable and unsure.

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

There is very little genuine rock and roll out there at the moment - but Steve Conte has hit the nail on the head with this one!

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

I grew up rock climbing.

When I was younger I knew I could do anything - I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea - I'd rather be a rock star.

Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.

Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.

I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.

Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll.

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.

My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.