Rock Quotes

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

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

I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.

And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.

We're a rock group. we're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.

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.

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

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.

Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

People don't realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it's hundreds of bottles of champagne flowing and private jets and money. But there's a lot of time when you're traveling - time to think, time to be lonely. Sometimes it gets to you.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock.

I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?

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

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

Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.

The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.

Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board.

I just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies - and dressed their fantasies.

Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.