Rock Quotes
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I don't believe people playing rock n' roll should have crowns. We're not kings and queens. Anybody can play it.
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, it became, 'Now I'm going to force my entire family to watch me perform all these rock songs.'
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It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.
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I guess there's enough information out there to support that I'm a crazy, wild dude and rock and roll and this, that and the other. And there's enough information to support that, you know, I'm a single father, that, you know, has been a pretty standup guy in his community and pretty private about that stuff.
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I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.
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I was at the radio station all the time and on the air all the time. I met John Travolta and a lot of the other big '70s icons. Shaun Cassidy sang 'Da Do Ron Ron' to me onstage. I thought I was a rock star; I had an all-access-pass childhood.
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I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I played drums for, like, four years.
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We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.
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Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.
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It's something I've always been passionate about - which is the power of rock and roll itself. I'm a walking example of its power, 'cause I was totally altered in the seminal years of Live by bands like U2 and R.E.M., U2 in particular.
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I like rock music that has melody, but it also makes you wanna get up and dance.
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To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people.
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I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?
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A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.
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My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we enjoyed reading it.
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Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.
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Rock 'n' roll and playing live is very addictive. But you have to really be careful, because you don't want to do it all the time. It's like when you are young and you think if you are not having sex you're wasting your time. But as you get older you realise everything has its place. It's the same thing with performing.... Performing is a great thing to do but you don't want to have to be doing it every night.
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Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.
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If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.
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Most salespeople would like to think of themselves as being rock stars, but they don't display the talent to match their definition.
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Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!
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[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.
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It's a big deal when you play in a rock band and you conquer Japan. You know, it's a big deal.
