Top 1200 Old Rock Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I think people have a clear idea of my style of music I want to do, which is rock, but it's not heavy rock. It's more rock that is feel good and makes you feel something, whether or not that's heartache and pain or it feels like a celebration.

I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old.

Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Who wants to be a 40-year-old rock and roller? You cannot live in the past.

EDM is here to stay. If you're 19 years old, this is your rock 'n' roll.

I like old-school, riff-driven, hard rock music with big hooks!

I've seen guys on the street who look the part of a rock star just as much as any rock star. If you feel it and you believe it, then you can get away with it. Rock on!

Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.

My mother is a rock. She's my rock, she's Ariana's rock, and she has been a huge example of how to get through some difficult situations with strength, dignity, her head held high.

Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.

How many times can a rock star go over the top on drugs? How many times can a rock star be unfaithful to his old lady? It is really fu**ing boring, and that is what they do over and over and over. They just print the same sh*t.

I'm not one of those spoiled rock stars who complains about how tedious it is to perform my old hits.

Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it was done well. So energetically, again I felt like it was in line with punk rock and maybe hard rock, more than it was in line with R&B, which I never really liked.

I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

You tend to put your rock stars on pedestals - they seem like they've been there for time immemorial. But you realize that the rock stars have their own rock stars. They were fans and kids once, too.

My whole game plan, at first, was I wanted to rock out as hard as I could because usually you're old by the time you're 24.

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.

Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks.

Rock n' roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

Rock music is a funny thing: You can actually take it too far sometimes, and then it's not rock music anymore - it's something else, but it's not rock.

Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.

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.

Someone had asked me who I thought was better, John Cena or Rock. I said Rock needs a teleprompter. Rock needs a writer to write all his stuff.

I'm a rock 'n' roll baby. I was one of the last actually born into rock, in the middle of it. My mother was a promoter, so I grew up with rock stars. When I was little, people like Jimi Hendrix were walking around in the living room.

I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

You can't go on being a 19-year-old rock-and-roller all your life.

There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.

Well, after Zombie Birdhouse came out, I toured behind it in the fall of 1982, into the spring, and in the summer in the Far East. At that time, I found my work self-referential; it was getting to be rock songs about a rock singer who lived a rock life on the rock road, and I was starting to wonder what I would be like to rent my own apartment, what it would be like to have a checkbook.

The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over.

My parents didn't allow rock music in the house. I actually didn't even know it existed until I was probably eleven years old.

Kansas has always considered itself a "rock band" - some people might say "symphonic rock band," others might say a "classical rock band," but we've kind've prided ourselves on being a rock band. Kansas rocks.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

I like whatever's good. Metal, rock, new or old - I don't care, as long as it does something to my brain.

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

The age of the rock star was coterminous with rock n' roll, which, in spite of all the promises made in some memorable songs, proved to be as finite as the era of ragtime or big bands. The rock era is over. We now live in a hip-hop world.

One of my friends was a stage hand at a Bob Dylan show in the mid-90s and I remember him telling me that somebody crowd surfed during the gig. And this friend of mine was an old punk rock guy - he was totally humiliated by it. But some of Bob's people were there and they said, "Oh, Bob will be so excited! This is the kind of energy we want at his shows." That's where the old school was at.

You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock." "Very amusing, my sarcastic friend. It's not a rock, precisely. All Shadowhunters have a witchlight rune-stone.

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

I rock with Chance, I rock with Kanye, I rock with Common.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

I never pretended to be rock star. I would make a lousy rock star. I don't have the right voice for it. I don't have the "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" spirit. But the greatest flattery in the last couple of years is being called a "badass" by young singers.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

I love to rock, but it's liberating not to always have to keep up with the freight train that is the Old 97's

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

I think that's really the kind of exponential factor in being in a punk-rock band or making music videos and movies -pirates and rock 'n' roll go hand in hand. There is a `question authority,' `don't be afraid to break the rules' quality that whether you're a 4-year-old bouncing on your bed as your parents are trying to stop it or an adult longing for that feeling, there's something inside all of us that piracy speaks to. I'm going to do what I want to do and I don't care what you think.

To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation.

I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked and I thought their opinions sucked.

Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music will always look out for me. But I will not let my torture profanity demon shoot it down.

Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.

All cats old enough to catch thier own prey,gather here under the High Rock for a clan meeting!