Rock Quotes - page 11

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll. (Patty Duke)
I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun. View quote
Joey Ramone
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. View quote
Pete Townshend
It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance. View quote
Pete Townshend
Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing. View quote
Fay Wray
I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life. View quote
Sammy Hagar
Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later. View quote
Sammy Hagar
Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can really hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones. View quote
Gale Harold
We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage. View quote
Michael Hutchence
Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do. View quote
The Edge
I think my chances of getting into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli's. (Al Yankovic)
Every comic is really a frustrated rock star. View quote
Alex Borstein
I think it would be really awesome to be a rock star. View quote
Alexander Ludwig
But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career. View quote
Amy Ray
What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe. View quote
Andy Summers
I think rock records tend to be very expensive. View quote
Andy Summers
I think everybody wants to be a rock star. View quote
Anna Camp
Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea. View quote
Anthony Perkins
I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along. View quote
Armistead Maupin
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong. View quote
Arto Lindsay
I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends. (Audrina Patridge)
Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody. View quote
Adam Rich
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult. View quote
Al Stewart
With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces. View quote
Alain Robert
I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody. View quote
Bill Haley