Rock Quotes

• When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Star

• There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Music
  • Black
  • Girl

• After 7 long years, Finally, FINALLY, FINALLY, The Rock has come back to Anaheim! Which means FINALLY, The Rock has come back to Monday Night Raw! Which means FINALLY, The Rock HAS COME BACK... home.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Long
  • Home
  • Night

• When you ask people who their favorite comedian is or favorite African-American comedian, people generally say Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, or Richard Pryor. Redd Foxx gets left out a lot.

  

  Eric Andre
  • People
  • American
  • Rock

• You lil Fraggle Rock, beat you wit a padded lock

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Rocks
  • Beats
  • Wit

• I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Music
  • She

• We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.

  

  Chad Kroeger Nickelback
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Band

• The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over.

  

  Kathleen Anne Brien
  • Up
  • Night
  • Rock

• Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.'

  

  David Chase
  • Art
  • True
  • Death

• I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Comedy

• I understand how hard rock fans feel inside out, because I was one of those people.

  

  Charlie Simpson Busted
  • People
  • Rock

• I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Star
  • First Impression

• Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Music
  • American
  • Past

• All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. The rock bands are rather drab, even the good ones. You definitely don't want to look at them. But some of those R&B people are very good.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Attitude

• I'd rather have 1000 of our fans than 10,000 Kid Rock fans!

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Rock

• Hail, hail rock and roll; deliver me from the days of old. Long live rock and roll; the beat of the drums, loud and bold. Rock, rock, rock and roll; the feelin' is there, body and soul.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Long
  • Live
  • Soul

• I've been blessed to have insanely hip parents who think of me as their little Chris Rock.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Parents
  • Rock
  • Blessed

• You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • World
  • Star

• I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show '30 Rock' coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Friends

• We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.

  

  Inara George
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Father

• You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • People
  • Great
  • Power

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