Rock Quotes

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.

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

I want to tell the story. Mostly, when you see rock movies, it has to be this over-the-top thing. I want to give people a Bret Michaels movie where they see that my life is a comedy of errors. I also want to show my fans how to get through the kind of troubles that would leave most people flat on the floor.

Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me.

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

I just wanna thank all those amazing Internet bloggers out there that hate me day-to-day. I love you! You rock!

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

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

I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

And I can do the rock clubs if I have to.

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.