Rock Quotes

• We didn't invent this - this rock n' roll thing.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • Rock

• Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Fly

• I think that becoming a successful rock band is a little like becoming a professional athlete. Nobody plans on it.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Band
  • Professional
  • Athlete

• I was five years old, onstage singing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' - a rock version - and I was always wanting to entertain. But the biggest thing for me is just country music has helped me get through the worst times of my life and the best times of my life. I want to give that back to people.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance!

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Rocks

• I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.

  

  Jeffrey Ross Hyman Ramones
  • Fun
  • Rock

• Enough of dreams! No longer mock The burdened hearts of men! Not on the cloud, but on the rock Build thou thy faith again;O range no more the realms of air, Stoop to the glen-bound streams; Thy hope was all too like despair: Enough, enough of dreams.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Faith

• 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

• At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• The Seattle explosion was what saved rock from becoming too pompous! A great moment in music!

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Explosion
  • Seattle
  • Pompous

• Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Wars
  • Rock And Roll
  • Cola

• Dom wants to be a stadium rock drummer and have a sweat towel tech...

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Rock
  • Drummer
  • Towel

• I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • School
  • Rock

• Mick Jagger has been an idol of mine since I was 10 years old. Through his music, he has taught me so much about rock n' roll, but also about the blues and about the experience of live music, going to several Rolling Stones shows, growing up.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Music
  • Live

• Fortunately, right now 'entrepreneurship' is one of the business world's biggest buzz words and so many young people in our country are looking up to this new generation of CEO's as their modern day rock stars. Whenever you have that effect, it makes the job of promoting entrepreneurship much easier.

  

  Daymond John
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Time
  • Song
  • Past

• A lot of people ask how I ended up doing classical music given that I'm in a rock band. The truth is that it's the other way around. I was trained as a classical musician and then started playing in a rock band later.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don't expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you're a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.

  

  Tove Lo
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 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

• I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Music
  • Words
  • Rock

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

  

  Bo Bice
  • Dad
  • Star
  • Husband

• Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• If you break down most rock songs and look at the lyrics on a piece of paper, it's all about melody. It's all about presentation. And a lot of bands are really great, but you can't understand a word of what they say.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Lyrics

• You can't stop rock-n-roll!

  

  Dee Snider
  • Stop
  • Rock

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