Rock Quotes

• We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Men
  • Day
  • Beer

• Singing rock n' roll - they called it singing for the devil. But we all wanted an opportunity to compete in the music industry, and that was the opportunity.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • Music
  • Opportunity
  • Singing

• Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake there shackle.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • Kids
  • Rock
  • King

• My job as the host of a rock awards show is not to be as divisive as possible, but certainly you want to be able to interject your jokes and how you feel about stuff.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Job
  • Rock

• Being in a rock n' roll and pop world, it's very easy to act like a kid.

  

  Joseph Mulrey McIntyre
  • World
  • Rock

• When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

  

  Jacob Riis
  • Help
  • Rock

• I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Guy

• The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • Rock

• I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.

  

  Connie Britton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

  

  William Broad Generation X
  • People
  • Art
  • Rock

• I'm still waiting for him to rock the white jacket with the rolled-up sleeves. I think it'll happen.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Up
  • Waiting
  • Sleeves

• I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Different
  • Why
  • House

• Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • America
  • Rock

• In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Control
  • Kid
  • Reached

• I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.

  

  Gregg Allman
  • God
  • Soul
  • Song

• Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Stars

• It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).

  

  James Gleick
  • True
  • Free
  • Band

• There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Done

• I'm interested in where I'm going and the people I am there to see. Going to Cuba was a great example of that, and the succession of going into Cuba, which is not a very easy place to get into, and playing music for people who have never seen a live rock concert outdoors like that.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Rock

• Some of the most powerful female performers I've seen balance the feminine and the masculine and are incredibly strong. Like, I think Hayley Williams is one of the best rock performers.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Strong
  • Powerful
  • Balance

• I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!

  

  Jennifer Lawrence
  • Done
  • Running
  • Tree

• I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Good
  • Country
  • Song

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