Rock Quotes

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

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.

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.

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.