Rock Quotes

• When I thought I was dying in rehab in 1994, 'I Won't back Down' was my mantra. It lifted my up out of the pain and made me fight through it. 'The Waiting'... summed up my life. We can't stand waiting, we rock 'n' roll men and women. Tom Petty's songs are like a great book that you revisit when you need help. His songs make me better.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock... whatever you want to call it is OK with me.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Joke

• Prince is extremely soulful, but he can get real rock-'n'-rollish. So can Lenny Kravitz. Lenny's real soulful but he's got that rock with him, too. On the whole, I guess black folks ain't trying to handle rock-'n'-roll, really.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Black

• This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Life
  • Rock

• Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Great
  • Music
  • Real

• There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up this historic baton and continue working hard for the great renewal of the Chinese nation, so that we will stand rock firm in the family of nations and make fresh and greater contribution to mankind.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top.

  

  Jonathan Davis
  • School
  • High
  • Beautiful

• I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Star

• They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

  

  Freddy Fender
  • Rock

• Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?

  

  Bon Scott
  • Today
  • Rock

• The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • World
  • Music
  • Business

• In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Brain
  • Sports
  • Wall

• Rock n' roll is not just a fashion statement; it is the attitude, and it has a political posturing as well.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Political
  • Fashion
  • Attitude

• Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Important
  • Family
  • Energy

• Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Time
  • School
  • Band

• An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

  

  Ice T
  • Control
  • Party
  • Rap

• I grew up with British rock.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Up
  • Grew Up
  • British rock

• We never saw ourselves as a rock group.

  

  Irmin Schmidt Can
  • Rock
  • Group
  • saw

• Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Up
  • Music
  • Fun

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Singing

• Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Me
  • Star
  • Tell

• And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Sides
  • Rocks
  • Fog

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