Top 1200 Classic Rock Quotes & Sayings

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.

My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail.

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

I listen to classic rock for the most part.

It's funny: here I am, a guy who plays in one of the world's biggest classic-rock bands, and to tell you the truth, I listen to classic rock the least.

I like African music but also R&B, rap, alternative rock, and classic.

I wanna write a classic metal record, a classic rock record, in 2013.

I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record.

I'll hear us on classic rock radio stations, and I'll go, 'Oh, my God, we're getting old!'

God bless classic rock. It's been very good to me; I'll tell you that.

From country rock to Cajun, classic rock to Latin, and blues to Americana, I've had the pleasure of re-discovering the 'jewels' from my repertoire that are so well-liked.

I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

I like listening to classic rock. I know that all Cafe Tacvba members have different influences and sometimes they show and other times they don't.

I still remember discovering the classic rock station when I was in high school and being totally blown away by it.

I usually listen to classic rock and roll.

The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

'Classic rock' is never a label that we've given ourselves - it's one of the many labels that's been imposed on us.

I worked out the keyboard parts on the progressive rock classic 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' and somehow managed to play it all on acoustic guitar.

My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and a Gibson solid-body like an SG or a Les Paul. It contains all sounds of the basic classic rock n' roll guitars. It does what I want it to do.

I love the classic trucker jacket as an icon of rock 'n' roll and rebellion.

I listen to everything. My playlists are wide-ranging. I listen to classic rock, gospel, Christian, soul.

I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Southern rock, classic rock.

I listen to a lot of Pink Floyd, the Doors, Elton John, Sabbath, Metallica, GN'R, Megadeth - just classic rock, classic metal stuff.

Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.

My big brother listened to classic rock, and I grew up listening to a classic rock station called KSHE.

'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach - Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side.

Critics and fans use the music of their youth as reference points. For years, people seriously wondered who "the next Beatles" were going to be, and classic rock bands were the de facto yardstick for rock quality.

'Silence Kid' starts with a broken classic-rock intro. It's funny to hear us do that. Obviously, we weren't skillful rock stars. Then it's spinning through a lot of hooks really fast, and all of a sudden, it's over.

When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that.

I love the blues. I love rock. I love classic rock. I love country. All types of music I can appreciate.

I'm into classic rock, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel.

My dad was into classic rock and R&B, which I originally started in. And then my mom did the country.

But my everyday music is classic rock. It's what I relate to the most and where my heart is.

There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

You have to be talented and you have to be lucky. Record companies are not signing classic rock groups anymore.

I probably have the most versatile playlist in the world, from country to rap to classic rock to classical.

This year's Hippiefest tour is truly a 'Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour' - a landmark, historic, musical celebration of which my band and I are proud to be a part. It's going to be a Guitar Guru Gala of Gargantuan proportions. For me personally, it will simply be the Greatest! So, see you at one of the dates on the tour. Believe me, this is not one you want to miss. All I can say is Get Ready To Rock'n'Roll!!!

I'm big fan of soulful music - classic rock with a folk-ish twist.

For a long time, New Orleans was the classic-rock station of American cuisine, its reputation for flamboyance belying its playlist conservatism.

I love all the '90s kind of grunge, and I love classic rock: That's where the spectrum lies.

'We Will Rock You' we didn't think was a single. We almost saw it like an introduction to 'We Are the Champions,' which is a more classic, very grand song.

I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.

I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

I like a lot of old-school R&B, soul, and classic rock.

The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.

A classic liberal is more like a libertarian. I'm sorry. Classic liberal, actually, from the 1800s has a totally different meaning than a liberal who is [modern] classic.

A big part of the Alice Cooper sound is the big classic rock licks, the big, classic thematic kind of... It's not about going crazy, it's not about playing super fast.

Rick Nielsen, Angus Young. Huge Eddie Van Halen fan when I was younger. Jimmy Page is an enormous one who impacts me. When you grow up with classic rock like that and then you get into punk rock, you defy your roots and where you came from. I never really went through that. Even when I started listening to the Clash or the Sex Pistols, I still always listened to Led Zeppelin or Kiss.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

You need to have spent your time from playing Top 40 pop rock in order to know how to play a song like 'Ritual,' a song like 'Absolution' or 'Idolatrine.' You need to know your classic drumming and your classic guitar.

But my everyday music is classic rock. It’s what I relate to the most and where my heart is.

I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could get on a car stereo. Once you get a car at that age, you're spending all the time you can away from home, sometimes just driving around aimlessly. Listening, or not even listening, but subconsciously soaking up this classic rock barrage.

I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

No matter what though, there's always rock & roll. There's rock 'n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock & roll in pop music, there's rock 'n' roll in soul, there's rock 'n' roll in country. When you see people dress and their style has an edge to it, that rebellious edge that bubbles up in every genre, that's rock & roll. Everybody still wants to be a rock star.

Kids like classic rock, and so do adults.

I love listening to Led Zeppelin and classic rock albums from the Seventies. They're just so brilliant because they breathe.