Top 1200 Rock Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.

I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female singers. I like Nirvana, Green Day, System Of A Down. I also like punk rock, and I love bands like Coldplay.

Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.

I didnt ask to save rock, I dont even like rock that much.

I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to RB and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

The people who listened to rock 'n' roll, I thought, were bound together against the people who didn't listen to rock 'n' roll. That, of course, didn't work at all. Your taste in rock 'n' roll does not say anything about you, morally or otherwise.

Let's be perfectly honest. I love Rock to death. We're all different people, but Rock's a showman.

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.

I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music though.

I got really into rock - soft, romantic rock was my jam.

I've always wanted the IQ of a rock. No, wait. That would be an insult to the rock.

With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music, though.

Rock'n'roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock'n'roll, or a movie can be rock'n'roll. It's a way of living your life.

I want to rock till I drop. I love rock and roll music. It keeps you young.

My first album was all rock. I used to sing rock en espanol, but I don't think many people remember that.

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

He stops rocking the cage. "Oh, come on, Callie. It won't be fun if we don't rock it. In fact, the more we rock it, the better it'll feel." His voice drops to a deep whisper. "We can rock it nice and slow or really, really fast."... "Do I have your permission to rock away and give you the ride of your life?" Why does it feel like he's secretly talking dirty to me? "Yeah, go ahead, rock it nice and hard," I say without thinking, then bite down on my lip as the dirty section of my brain catches up with me. Honestly, I didn't even know that side existed.

If you like something, rock it. If you want to rock a cape every day, go for it.

Rock bands don't really swing... a lot of rock is stiff. They don't understand the feel, the movement, you know, the jungle of it all.

Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.

Just about every rock band and every guitar player from 1964 to 1984. To me, that's the golden period of rock. From the first Beatles album hitting America to the last Van Halen album with David Lee Roth. That's where all my favorite rock exists.

Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock. You don't necessarily need to have a degree in music composition to play in a rock band anymore, which is a great thing.

Why do I constantly feel as if all of you are speaking a foreign language? What is ‘grabbing a burger at the Hard Rock’ supposed to mean? (Julian) The Hard Rock Café is a restaurant. (Grace) You eat at a place that advertises its food is hard as a rock? (Julian)

We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock.

I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

Well, 'Crunk Rock' doesn't mean rock. Initially when I started the album, I did collaborate with a bunch of rock musicians and producers. But as I started to have time to free my mind and catch different vibes, it started to mean something different.

Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.

I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That he will not torture the forgiving. Upon that rock I stand. That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand.

Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

There's very few rock & roll bands. There's rock bands, there's sort of metal bands, there's whatever, but there's no rock & roll bands - there's the Stones and us.

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

I was born in 1963. So the '70s were my teenage years. As a teenager, I was into rock and roll - Bowie, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, even more progressive music like Genesis, and I was into a lot of British rock and roll. But I loved also American rock and roll. CCR, Jimmie Hendrix, The Doors, Patty Smith, and Bob Dylan.

I consider myself a rock climber but the definition of rock climbing as has changed.

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

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

Meghdhanush has brought the newer generation close to folk music with their personal touch of rock and they definitely rock at it.

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.

I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.

It is said that if one chooses to pray to a rock with enough devotion, even that rock will come alive.

When I was a kid, I was interested in folk music. But rock represented power, and I became the best rock guitarist in my school.

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

My boyfriend isn't a rock star. His values are rock solid. We met at a dinner and he made me laugh.

In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didnt get to when I was younger.

I loved 'Rock Lobster.' I probably heard 'Rock Lobster' first at a party or dance. Then we would do the Rock Lobster - get down on the floor and do the whole dance. I thought that was really cool and exciting, that there was actually a band that had their own dance at that point.

I grew up going to rock shows, and the lines of rock n' roll cross over with wrestling so much.

We went through rock 'n' roll, which then became just rock, then punk rock, then the worst disease of all - rap music. It's an oxymoron, because rap is not music.

You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.