Rock Quotes

• You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • Rock

• Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n' Roll.'

  

  Eric Burdon
  • Kids
  • American
  • Silly

• You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Men
  • Power
  • Night

• I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach - Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side.

  

  George Benson
  • Great
  • Song
  • Hand

• I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

  

  Dexter Holland The Offspring
  • Music
  • Different
  • Age

• There have been plenty of times when I've been a total dick like everybody else, you know, I mean I wanted to be a little rock'n'roller, and I was, and it was great. I had a to-do list of like 'Thou shalt wear sunglasses indoors at all times.' Done. 'Thou shalt take drugs and have a great time.' Done. 'Thou shalt crash a big car into a wall.' Done.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Time
  • Great
  • Done

• I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • World
  • Rock
  • Serious

• Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Rap

• Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

  

  Mac Davis
  • World
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.

  

  John Dawson Winter III
  • Rock

• It used to be, like, the sanctity of rock was that you could never let a song of yours be used in a commercial. It was like, 'Oh man, we'll never let our music be exploited that way.' Now they'll call you up and say, 'You gotta use this song in your movie, man. It's the new VW ad! People love it.' And you realize, boy, have times changed.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Dangerous

• Turn on, tune up, rock out.

  

  Billy Gibbons ZZ Top
  • Up
  • Rock

• I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Remember
  • Sex
  • Red

• Portland is where all the fringe groups went to escape. Where the outliers brought that DIY, punk rock attitude and made the city their own.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • City
  • Rock
  • Attitude

• I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one.

  

  Joey Lauren Adams
  • Home
  • Job
  • Food

• You've got to take responsibility for your own actions. We all know people who reach rock bottom. However much that they're told that what they're doing is harming their own life or whatever, you cannot make someone do it unless that person reaches the point where they know that they have to deal with it themselves.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • People
  • Life
  • Responsibility

• What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Death
  • Interesting
  • Grunge

• The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Fall
  • Rock
  • Mountain

• Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.

  

  Bob Geldof
  • People
  • World
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Serious
  • Self
  • Rock And Roll

• If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Music
  • Done
  • Kind

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