Rock Quotes

• I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Game
  • Man
  • Edgy

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

  

  Joseph Mulrey McIntyre
  • World
  • Rock

• We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• 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

• Rolling Stone magazine would not say anything positive about me, and they were the tastemakers at the time. There were people from the old guard who insisted I wasn't a real rock and roller. Well, O.K., fine -- I'm not a real rock and roller. You got me.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Rock
  • River

• I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • God
  • Faith
  • Environment

• I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Music
  • School
  • Study

• 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

• I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Night
  • Road
  • Singer

• We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.

  

  Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
  • Music
  • Different
  • Style

• Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Culture
  • Popular

• You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Music
  • Black
  • Stars

• You've got too many formats adult contemporary, adult alternative, soft rock, neo-soul come on! ... I'm hoping I will fit in all the marketplaces and not be limited to one place in music.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Contemporary

• The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory.

  

  Brendan I. Koerner
  • Together
  • Earth
  • Distance

• I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again.

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Rock
  • Pop
  • Seventies

• Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting, you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick, or whatever. In sculpture, you can get a rock. Writing, you just need a pencil and paper. Film has been a very elitist medium. It costs so much money.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Money

• In rock n' roll, there are notes that aren't like notes. They're something in between, and it's the way you scoop into it.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Rock

• There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Real
  • Rock

• I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Words
  • Rock
  • Inspired

• It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Reality
  • Gay

• I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Walking
  • Wind

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