Rock Quotes

• Thomas Rhett Akins doesn't sound like a rock star name. I didn't leave Akins out to convince people my dad wasn't my dad. I've always been called Thomas Rhett.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • People
  • Dad
  • Star

• One doesn't have to sit through exams and go to universities to play rock n' roll.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Rock

• I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who
  • Believe
  • Rock

• I mean, nobody's ever thrown a big rock at me or my friends, but we're all pretty tough guys and could probably handle it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.

  

  Jose Gonzalez
  • Rock

• At the crux of Half Dome, at the very top of the wall, imagine, like, a smooth wall of rock - a nearly vertical granite slap with tiny ripples for your hands and feet. And so you're really trusting the rubber on your shoes to stick to these ripples.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Rock
  • Wall
  • Shoes

• I think the live show is a different kind of catharsis. It's an event. It's supposed to be entertaining. To keep myself entertained, I like to play a rock n' roll show. I still kind of feel like I'm a rock n' roll musician anyway.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Different
  • Live
  • Rock

• I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

  

  Marianne Wiggins
  • Rock
  • Car
  • Road

• Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

  

  Win Butler
  • Responsibility
  • Band
  • Weird

• There's always music that moves me. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It's usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Blues
  • Necessarily
  • Parenthesis

• I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.'

  

  Richie Havens
  • Artist
  • I Remember
  • Jazz Club

• I've been lucky enough to meet a lot of fantastic people, from royalty to rock stars. I've also been known to be a bit of a daredevil, so I've tried to explore extreme travel and adventure - scuba-diving in an arctic glacier and camping in the Himalayas.

  

  Cynthia Rowley
  • People
  • Travel
  • Adventure

• As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Experience
  • Suffering
  • Feet

• It's Only Rock and Roll.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Rock
  • Only
  • Rock And Roll

• I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Single
  • Rock
  • Breakfast

• We've never been your traditional rock-pop band. Lyrically, I've always had more of an interest in spirituality and that kind of thing.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Band
  • Rock

• I don't know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure.

  

  Jared Leto Thirty Seconds to Mars
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Pink

• I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Beginning

• I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.

  

  John Dykstra
  • Done
  • College
  • Photography

• When I was a younger man,Got lucky with a rock 'n' roll band,Struck gold in Hollywood,All the time I knew I wouldGet back to the country,Back where it all began.Get back to the country,Back in the barn again.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Time
  • Country
  • Band

• Yosemite has the most impressive and accessible granite big walls in the world. The rock is amazing. And because of that, it's been the mecca for climbing in the U.S. - and the world to a large degree - for all of climbing history. It's the place to test yourself against the historic routes of the past.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • World
  • History
  • Past

• 'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.

  

  John Gay
  • Rock
  • Wind

• I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just doesn't fit.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Thinking
  • Talking
  • Rocks

• People define themselves to some degree by the music that they listened to as teens. My mom had Elvis. Me, I had 'The Who' and later punk rock. Kids who came up in the '80s had other songs and bands. It's a way of placing ourselves culturally and temporally.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

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