Rock Music Quotes

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

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

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.

You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do.

Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me over.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it.

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old.

That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.

A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

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

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, lets be honest!

I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

All rock music is fake news.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both.

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

I have always loved rock music. But I have played country music since my senior year in high school. That's where my heart is. I try to keep up with the rock world as much as I can.

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

The whole city [Manchester] just a real rock music vibe. It reminded me a lot of where I'm from.

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 heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.

I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.

"Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock

It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool.

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve Allen Show that got me into rock music.

Rock music is stronger than sports. That's why. Rock rules. Around the world, who's more famous: Willie Mays or Paul McCartney?

I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.

That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and you can sort of predict it, but a lot is left up to chance and interaction.

Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.

I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.