Rock Quotes
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It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.
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Some songs are just going to be acoustic with just maybe some light background stuff going on and maybe violin or something like that. Or sax - I mean, I'm definitely having some sax. That's just what I love. It's going to be jazz-rock stuff. That's what I'm aiming for.
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To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.
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I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!
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I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
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Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
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My dad has been playing guitar basically all his life. He's sort of who got me into rock music.
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When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.
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Rock 'n' roll really is not given to thinking - and resents thinking. Which I believe is the big error of rock 'n' roll. It's always aspired to be the music of the working class. And it's never been looked upon as a vocabulary for art and artistic thinking... We have to be able to expand the vocabulary to express more complex thoughts.
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Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.
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Rock music was the death of jazz in a way. I know there's a bunch of people who say jazz isn't dead, but I mean, rock 'n roll, you play three chords to 20,000 people; jazz, you play 20,000 chords to three people.
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I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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The whole 'School of Rock' experience was really cool, and just meeting new people from all over.
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.
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Well, on tour I eat terribly, so I balance that by running a lot. And then I started to run with my fans in certain cities. It sounds very nerdy and un-rock n' roll, but I like it. It's fun, and it's better than meeting fans in weird, awkward circumstances. So I take them running with me.
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Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.
