Rock Quotes

The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.

I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.

There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.

I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.

The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people.

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal.

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.

I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere.

Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

I don't like rock opera with back beats.

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.

It's wild how chefs have become like rock stars.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song.

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.