Rocks Quotes

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

I need to be able to rock out.

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

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

I'm no expert, Rock, but I don't think I have any poontang...to give you.

My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face.

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.

For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.

I love the classic trucker jacket as an icon of rock 'n' roll and rebellion.

Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

If I could dress anyone, I'd like to dress the Queen - she can handle anything. I'd put her in black - she never wears black - and add a little leather, maybe. A little rock n' roll.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party.

People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you.

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

The sea ebbs and flows, but the rock remains unmoved.

We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.

I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.

Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.

But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.

Ric Flair is the greatest guy ever. He just wants to hang out, have a beer, and tell stories. He's the coolest. I've never met The Rock though.

I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive.

I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock'n'roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock'n'roll.

Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

It's Only Rock and Roll.

Storytime is over, Rock. Every time you want to 'bring it,' because it belongs to me, I'm just going to take it!.

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.