Rocks Quotes

I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.

In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.

So God made girls... God made girls... He stood back and told the boys, I'm 'bout to rock your world.

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

Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.

You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.

I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.

When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.

More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

I would hate to have "Holiday in Cambodia" become as tiresome to other people as hearing "Like a Rock" in a Chevrolet commercial.

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.

I want to roll my eyes right now, but the doctor says that if I keep doing it, my ocular muscles might spasm and eject my eyeballs.

I got rid of all my Colin Firth movies in case they consider it erotica.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

Rock and menopause do not mix.

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.