Rock Quotes

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

What has Rock and Roll ever done for us? Everything.

When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

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.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

My mom is definitely my rock.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago.

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.

I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.

When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.

Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace.

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.

We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent.

I would rather be a security guard than a rock star.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

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

Potty mouth, rock star, at the top and still tryna climb, Drop the top sit back recline

My body is the rock and roll temple and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people whether they like it or not

A coder will be the next rock star.

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me.

You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.

Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.

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

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there.

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music though.

Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.

What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.

There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.

I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.