Rocks Quotes

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll.

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

Say planet rock, it's a sure shot.

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

He is the Rock, His work is perfect: For all His ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is He.

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.

Live every week like it's shark week.

I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we'd have a built-in fanbase so we could pretty much play anywhere, people would show up and rock out

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the song, I turn it up and start to sing.

Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.

An idea in the head is like a rock in the shoe; I just can't wait to get it out.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Mötley Crüe could be the first band to play on the moon.

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.

Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away.

I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.

The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exciting event?

Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.

A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.