Rock Quotes

• It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.

  

  Penelope Spheeris
  • Wish
  • Rock

• The age of the rock star ended with the passing of physical product, the rise of automated percussion, the domination of the committee approach to hit-making, the widespread adoption of choreography, and, above all, the advent of the mystique-destroying Internet.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Age
  • Star
  • Adoption

• From 1994 to 1996, I turned over every rock in Little Rock, looking for a silver bullet that would take down the Clintons in time for the 1996 election.

  

  David Brock
  • Time
  • Rock

• One of the questions I get asked a lot is, 'What do you do to stay in shape?' My glib answer is, 'I play.' But I mean it. Sure, I go to the gym, but I don't spend my life there. Most of my activity is outdoors, whether it's basketball or mountain biking or rock climbing.

  

  Jason Lewis
  • Life
  • Basketball
  • Mountain

• 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 wrote themselves out of the band history, as far as I'm concerned. They should have a little bit of honor. This is supposed to be rock 'n' roll. This is supposed to be friendly. This is like going through the trenches together.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • Together
  • History
  • Band

• 'Rock Bottom Riser' by Smog - I was just in Europe, and my jet lag never really went away. I wasn't sleeping very much. Then one night, my girlfriend saw a Bill Callahan show in L.A. and took a video of that song and sent it to me. I was just listening to it over and over - it was comforting.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • Song
  • Night
  • Listening

• Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.

  

  John Belushi
  • Rock
  • Army
  • Chicago

• Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Rock
  • Paradox
  • Yield

• Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Traveling all over the country and all over the world, I think you've got a lot of pop acts and a lot of rock acts that are making a point of traveling to different places and making people aware of their music and their shows and the whole deal and I think country music has always sort of stayed, for the most part, in the states.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Rock
  • Confidence
  • Depression

• My name is Bono and I am a rock star.

  

  Bono U2
  • Rock
  • Star

• 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
  • Long
  • Song
  • Words

• These were songs that we?d been writing and collecting over the years. Some of them we actually thought about putting on previous albums. But we didn't want to make it seem like they were filler tracks or novelties in the middle of a rock record. We felt like they were too important for that.

  

  Peter Hayes Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  • Felt
  • Middle
  • Putting

• Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Star
  • Dying
  • Legacy

• I think Everclear is a weird combination of a singer-songwriter and a hard-rock band. That's why some people really dig the band, and some don't.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • People
  • Why
  • Band

• I was a big Guns N' Roses fan when I was seven. My friend who lived across the street had long dark curly hair and I had long blonde hair, so I'd dress up as Axl and she'd be Slash, and we'd rock out in front of the mirror singing 'Patience.'

  

  Kirsten Dunst
  • Up
  • Long
  • She

• You'd have to have lived under a rock somewhere to not have heard of it.

  

  Michael Rose Black Uhuru
  • Heard
  • Lived
  • Somewhere

• Rock and roll was a revelation for me.

  

  Li Lu
  • Rock

• The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It's about rebellion, it's about the growth of the British entertainment system, the growth of the rock n' roll entertainment system.

  

  Bob Spitz
  • Culture
  • Growth
  • Drug

• I'm into Incubus. Growing up, I was a huge Taking Back Sunday fan. I'm still a fan, but I don't listen as much as I used to. When I was 13 or 14, I started getting into emo-pop-rock, so that influenced me. I also love Drake... I have a pretty diverse collection.

  

  Kendall Schmidt Big Time Rush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own.

  

  Cliff Richard
  • Time
  • America
  • Career

• When I was a kid, I wanted to be either a rock star or a wrestler.

  

  Chris Jericho
  • Rock
  • Star

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