Rock Quotes

• I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.

  

  Bobby Keys
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Rock

• I always like balance. If I'm playing rock music all the time, chances are I'll start craving some lighter, poppier stuff, both to listen to and to play. I compare music to massage. If someone's been working on your back for a long time, you really want them to move down to your legs or something.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Job
  • Earth
  • Light

• 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
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Stop

• The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Rock
  • Moon

• I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Life
  • Star
  • Writer

• It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Great
  • Play
  • Star

• If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Band
  • 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

• I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

  

  Cheryl Mendelson
  • Music
  • Rock
  • German

• Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy. And you're responsible for the energy you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Tree

• They (Extreme) surround themselves with these professional, dickhead, commercial rock and roll guys...when they show up at an airport, their manager runs ahead of them and yells at the people greeting them, 'No video! We want a path straight to the van! We don't want any pictures taken!' Y'know, I'm like, 'So what?'

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • People
  • Up
  • Taken

• On '30 Rock,' the hours were really intense, and I was often on set. I'm glad I didn't have a kid then because I don't think I would have ever seen her. I would work 15-hour days, and weekends, too.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Work
  • Rock

• We're the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Rock
  • Satisfy
  • Served

• When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.

  

  William Broad Generation X
  • Real
  • Funny
  • Ambition

• Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

  

  Joan Jett
  • People
  • Why
  • Fun

• I try to be a better dad and husband than I do pretend rock star.

  

  Bo Bice
  • Dad
  • Star
  • Husband

• The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Country
  • Religious

• I love the feeling of touching the rock, the feeling of my body going up the rock.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Rock

• 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

• I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
  • People
  • Important
  • Mother

• Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

  

  Dexter Holland The Offspring
  • Thinking
  • Rock

• What I miss from the States, I guess, is going to museums and to see small rock shows in small bars. We don't have that in Hong Kong. Unfortunately because the property market is so high, all rent is so expensive, they can't afford to have a rock music bar because those things don't make a lot of money, and they're paying a lot of rent.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Music
  • Money
  • High

• Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

  

  Alex Winston
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

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