Rock Quotes
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I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great... I want to be a part of it.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.
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Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.
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How does Macy Gray or Kid Rock not win over Christina Aguilera?
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I've always been a fan of 'Beat It,' 'You Rock My World,' and 'Smooth Criminal.'
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Personally, I've realized that the tradition I thought of as too safe, too pretty, and too conventional is the space where women have been able to gain some practical ground. The area of music where we thought the status quo was really being upset - specifically hard rock - has actually remained the most male-dominated.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
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What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.
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I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!
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I understand how hard rock fans feel inside out, because I was one of those people.
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Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
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You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
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People want things now. People in the rock world seem to not want to give it to them - they want to keep doing things the old way - and one thing that has always bummed me out is when we get a single three months out, and then you have to keep getting fed with bread crumbs.
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My iPod will shuffle from rap to pop to rock to classical ... It gets confusing!
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Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.
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I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.
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It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.
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I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.
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I love that kind of edgy, rock n' roll punk thing that we do so well in England. But my style adapts to where I am. When I'm in Los Angeles, suddenly I'm like, 'I need a sandal, and I need a beige dress, and I need some flowers in my hair.'
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The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
