Rock Quotes
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I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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To me, rock and roll is like an ethos or a state of mind.
Kevin Parker
Tame Impala
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” “Elton John?” “Close. Ernest Hemingway. In his own way, sort of the rock star of his time.
Kami Garcia
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I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.
Imelda May
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People hear a powerful female singer in a rock and roll band, and they say, 'Janis Joplin.' I think people just make that comparison because it's easy. But I don't think I sound like her at all.
Brittany Howard
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I was born in 1963. So the '70s were my teenage years. As a teenager, I was into rock and roll - Bowie, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, even more progressive music like Genesis, and I was into a lot of British rock and roll. But I loved also American rock and roll. CCR, Jimmie Hendrix, The Doors, Patty Smith, and Bob Dylan.
Jean-Marc Vallee
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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Lee Iacocca
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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
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I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.
Phil Spector
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The current state of music journalism is not bad, but it's not great at all. Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool. But there are too many magazines, and the access has been diminished, so the quality of profiles has gone way down. Internet stuff can be really good, though. I like the dialogue between fans on the Internet. I think that's the best rock writing that's going on right now.
Cameron Crowe
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I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that.
Kathleen Edwards
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We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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Everybody, yeah. Rock your body, yeah.Everybody, yeah, rock your body right.Backstreet's back, alright!
Backstreet Boys
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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
Carly Simon
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I think it was in high school when I was listening to Sheryl Crow and Michelle Branch or Avril Lavigne - that time when female pop rock was really having a moment - and it really resonated with me. I started writing poetry, and I was learning how to play guitar at the time, but I didn't really put the two together for a while.
Chelsea Lankes
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When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.
Frank Iero
My Chemical Romance
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There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.
Joe Elliott
Def Leppard
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It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.
Charley Pride
