Rock Quotes

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

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.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

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

I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.

We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.

My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.

I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.

How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.

Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left.

I feel there is a curse on rock stars.

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.