Rock Quotes

• Not a lot of hard rock bands are just letting it all be - they're adding a lot of samples on things, or effects or whatever - and we just wanted the drums to be raw so you could really hear what Brooks Wackerman is capable of.

  

  Johnny Christ
  • Rock

• What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Power
  • American
  • Science

• 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 do California casual a little bit better than really small European cut, tight apparel But I can rock some Gucci when I need to. I say this as I'm wearing Adidas sweatpants and a ten-year-old Chrome Hearts T-shirt.

  

  Carson Daly
  • Heart
  • Small
  • Cutting

• I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome of a rock & roll guitarist. Originally, TYA wanted to make it without having to compromise to pop. It worked for a while, but after five or six years, the fun went out of it for me; a lot of the music went out of it.

  

  Alvin Lee
  • Music
  • Fun
  • 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 had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Work
  • Music
  • Feeling

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

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Real
  • Rock

• You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

  

  James Daly
  • Technology
  • Rock

• Kerrang!: Clare Sharp from Glasgow would like to know what you thought of your mum's appearance in Kerrang! last August 1996 - predicting the future for ten rock stars?

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Future
  • Rock
  • August

• Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Rock

• We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

  

  Kanye West
  • Culture
  • Rap
  • Rocks

• The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Black
  • Band
  • Stage

• I've actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I've always had a large gay following, particularly in the lesbian community. I am grateful for that. To me, it means my music transcends categories. It also means that I'm a cute girl singing a rock song in an alto voice!

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Music
  • Career
  • Song

• The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown DJ set, and it wasn't quite rock enough for a rock band. But I guess it's what makes us unique - drawing from a lot of different influences.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Band

• As far as jeans and shirts, I rock a lot of different things.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Different
  • Rock

• I don't really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For me, whatever style it is, it always depends on the chord progression, the lyrics, and the melody used.

  

  Lodewijk Fluttert
  • Music
  • Song
  • Style

• Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Rock

• If I forgot to put something on, and I have to wear a trash bag, I'm just like, 'I'm gonna rock a trash bag today.'

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Today
  • Rock

• I mean that'd be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don't take that for granted.

  

  Davey Havok Blaqk Audio
  • Great
  • Rock

• I really want to be a rock star.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Rock
  • Star

• I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Rock
  • Star

• Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well.

  

  Dave Haywood Lady Antebellum
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Rock

• As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

  

  DJ Jazzy Jeff
  • Soul
  • Rock

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