Rocks Quotes

I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.

I drummed in some rock bands. I asked for a drum kit when I was 15 and my parents were kind enough to buy me one and I just started playing with my buddies who played guitar.

It is said that if one chooses to pray to a rock with enough devotion, even that rock will come alive.

There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music.

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)

People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?

I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions.

I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.

Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great I want to be a part of it.

When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.

If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public.

Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.

Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me over.

There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.

I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers than they do.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

Standing Rock is a moment in history. We really have to grab it and go with it.

Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

We are communal beings who love to get together in groups and share emotions - like sporting events, rock concerts and political rallies. We crave tribal membership.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

But my everyday music is classic rock. It’s what I relate to the most and where my heart is.

We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.

I have a flat tummy, but I'm not rock hard. If I'm going to be in a bikini, I'll train more and skip desserts for a couple of weeks. But usually, I work out to feel good.

There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.

The empty tomb stands, a veritable rock, as an essential element in the evidence for the resurrection. To suggest that it was not in fact empty at all, as some have done, seems to me ridiculous.

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

I'm a rock star among geeks, wonks, and nerds.

Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers?

I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.” - Verb.

I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.

Pope John Paul II stands like a rock against all opposition in his clear enunciation of the foundational principles of the Christian faith.

What?" It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow.

Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and hard to move

Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.

If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!

I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.

What I wanted to do in rock'n'roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.