Rock Quotes

In matters of style, swim with the current: in matters of principle, stand like a rock. (Thomas Jefferson)
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. View quote
Frank Zappa
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music? View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. View quote
Will Rogers
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. View quote
Kurt Cobain
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'. View quote
John Lennon
No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us. View quote
Bon Scott
I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect. I love being a freak. It's great! View quote
Brian Molko
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. View quote
Albert Camus
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. (Mark Twain)
My name is Bono and I am a rock star. View quote
Bono
I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour. View quote
Macaulay Culkin
I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts. View quote
Fran Drescher
I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. View quote
Dee Dee Ramone
It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't. View quote
Maria Callas
I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want! View quote
Amy Lee
Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll. View quote
Keith Richards
Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two. (Steven Tyler)
I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. View quote
Stevie Ray Vaughan
There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever. View quote
Kenny Rogers
There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. View quote
Josh Groban
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. View quote
Ernest Hemingway