Rocks Quotes

I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.

I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them.

Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I've always wanted to be a rock star.

Singing, dancing, and acting! The part [of Roxie in Let It Shine] was right up my alley. Plus, the thought of playing a rock star was like a dream for me.

The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.

Everybody's got a sack of rocks.

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else

To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

Nobody likes to hear a f**king rock star talk about his problems

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.

Fear not little flock; do good; let earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are built upon my rock, they cannot prevail. . .Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.

I feel there is a curse on rock stars.

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.

But the paparazzi are quite malicious and vocal and really rude, ... And they camped outside of my house, so I started throwing eggs at them, lobbing them at rocks next to them.

Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.

Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.

Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years.

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.