Rock Quotes
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Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face.
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Progressive rock is a flexible medium for dramatic storytelling because it lends itself perfectly to the extended song format.
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
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For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing.
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The future of rock belongs to women.
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I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.
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To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.
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You know in America the general consensus is that rock is dead. Ever since the alternative thing came in. With rock, it's like they just don't want to know about it.
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What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.
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Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
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What the world needs now is to rock! We’re back....forget the past, the time is now!
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When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.
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I'm real critical of myself. I think a lot of what I've done is boring indie rock. I didn't intend it to be that way, but somehow milk gets added to everything.
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I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?
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Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.
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With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock lyrics, but I'm writing from a music standpoint. I'm thinking more of music heroes, if they're in my mind. Not William Blake or John Ashbury. Sometimes maybe I thought of him a little bit. Or Wallace Stevens. I don't even really fully understand either of them.
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Rock should never be in bed with politics.
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I need to keep my classical roots and classical technique because it always kinda easier to play even in a rock group. I of course concentrate little bit more in classical music, while in rock you can be more free improvise, do crazy stuff with the instrument.
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Your heart is not living intil it has experienced pain... the pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock.
