Rock Quotes

There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.

This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.

It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.

In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll.

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

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.