Rock Quotes

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

There's a whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl.

When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we knew it couldn't be the same thing each year.

I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link.

I think record companies are criminals.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.

I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

My boyfriend says I dress like a rock star but I would say my style is hip and comfortable.

I'm not a rock star, I'm a soft person.

You know, your clothes may say disco, but your eyes say rock n roll.

I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

Rock 'n' roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake their shackle.

It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)

These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.

I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.

I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.

More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

Rock 'n' roll but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

This album was designed to touch your soul.

A rock star never gets old!

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.