Rock Quotes

I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude.

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

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.

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.

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.

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