Rocks Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

It won't suit me anyway if I suddenly do rock or traditional R&B because I grew up as a member of Big Bang, and therefore I'm used to it.

For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.

Two or three tons of rock can really get you down-and keep you there.

There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me.

We're gonna rock around the clock.

Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

A rock star never gets old!

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

Rock is much more malleable than ideas.

There's a whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl.

Rockabye Baby, in the treetop Dont you know a treetop is no safe place to rock? And who put you up there, and your cradle too? Baby, I think someone down here has got it in for you!

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that

I stayed there, curled up into the warmth of your body, under the blankets, like something soft in a shell. Your arms were firm as rock around me.

The road is a fun place, and it's a great place to get out there and explore the country. But as far as the road life with the 'rock n' roll temptations,' there's not much of that with me.

I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

I do think I have a rebellious, metal-loving rock chick inside of me.

I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling.

Im also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.

Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.