Rock Quotes

• Kane is a band I formed with my best friend Steve Carlson. We just got together and started playing guitar. He was playing some old school rock and roll, and we got together and thought, 'Hey, let's take this on the road.'

  

  Christian Kane
  • School
  • Together
  • Friend

• They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'

  

  William Broad Generation X
  • Money
  • American
  • Hair

• I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that.

  

  Kathleen Edwards
  • People
  • Proud
  • Rock

• Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Country
  • Art
  • Age

• If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Better

• When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Acoustic

• We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!

  

  Alvin Lee
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Band

• My main professional experience is touring in a rock band.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Experience
  • Band
  • Professional

• I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n' roll.

  

  King Tuff
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mind

• You can't stop rock-n-roll!

  

  Dee Snider
  • Stop
  • Rock

• To me, rock and roll is like an ethos or a state of mind.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Mind
  • Rock

• Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.

  

  Jason Sudeikis
  • Work
  • House
  • Rock

• I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Job
  • Professional
  • Ego

• I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Rock
  • Interested
  • Not Interested

• I'm trying to make music that I like, and I love hip-hop. At the same time, I love guitar. I love rock and everything.

  

  Post Malone
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• I asked for a piano in the TARDIS, but it hasn't happened. I'd love to see the Doctor rock up and play, but it'd have to be done in an inventive and silly way.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Up
  • Done
  • Silly

• There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

  

  Al Stewart
  • World
  • Rock

• I would rather be a security guard than a rock star.

  

  Bruce McCulloch
  • Rock
  • Star

• If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • People
  • Time
  • Team

• I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.

  

  Phil Spector
  • Rock

• The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of villages warning of danger, 'When night wolf swallows mother moon, there will be great famine.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Night

• I can't just play in a rock band. The National is a great, exciting band to play in. We improvise a lot onstage, and it's very intense, but after a while, I crave other kinds of experiences.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Great
  • Band
  • Rock

• Everybody, yeah. Rock your body, yeah.Everybody, yeah, rock your body right.Backstreet's back, alright!

  

  Backstreet Boys
  • Rock

• I was a loudmouth rock star when I was still in college. Purple hair this week, green hair next week, blond hair the week after. I was doing that fashion before it was really cool.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • College
  • Fashion
  • Cool

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