Rocks Quotes

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

It is incredible to me that my Twitter feed is a source of 'news' for every rock news outlet around the world.

America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.

You may not know it yet, but Samantha Martin is a rock star, she'll tear your heart out one note at a time.

'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.

In the space of one delivery so much had changed. My confidence was sky-high. I was pumped up and rock'n'rolling.

My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.

I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.

I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.

You two go and have fun. I have plenty of stuff here to entertain me with. Plato rocks! (Tory)

You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.

You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless.

I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too.

This country to-day [is] the last stronghold of freedom, standing like a rock in a tide that is threatened to submerge the world.

Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.

I still remember discovering the classic rock station when I was in high school and being totally blown away by it.

If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.

Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.

I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."

If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock music, and we were a part of that.

This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much a reaction to the pomposity of rock that existed within music at that time.

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.

Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.

Let me guess,' Ian said in a voice like ice. 'You fell on a rock.

I am not a rock producer. I don't see that. I once turned down Guns N' Roses. I don't like shouting. I'm a melody guy. I love great melody.

For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West.

My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.

One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.

My favorite record I've ever done is Rock Salt and Nails. It was recorded in '68-'69 and released in '69. There's something about that record I really like.

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.

Young bones groan And the rocks below say, "Throw your white body down!" But I'm going to meet the one I love At last

Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified.

I don't buy into the idea that you're not supposed to rock & roll after a certain date. Maybe I should be in Bellevue, but I'm just having a good time.

The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

I hate it when people say that they don't like 'MMMBop.' Everyone likes 'MMMBop.' Whether they like it or not, the song rocks.

The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

I think it's important that all 50 years of rock 'n' roll live in the same place, because it's all connected.

Being a rock 'n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun.

I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.

I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock.

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

You can drink out of Lincoln's nose. They got the Hard Rock t-shirts. They got Elvis, too.

I want to sympathize, I do, but the love triangle is just too delicious. The determined rock star and the possessive billionaire. Rawr.

I'm not trying to ally myself with the rock stars of the universe.

Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think