Rock Quotes - page 18

After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll. (Rick James)
I don't consider myself a rock star chef, I really don't. I cook for a living and I try to help out as many people as I can in my life and that's all I care about. I don't care about the fame of television, I use to a lot. View quote
Robert Irvine
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times. View quote
Robert Morgan
I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno. View quote
Raf Simons
I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me. View quote
Robert Quine
I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry. View quote
Robert Wyatt
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. View quote
Robert Wyatt
I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology. View quote
Robert Wyatt
I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock. View quote
Rock Hudson
Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record. View quote
Ronnie Spector
I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch. (Rosemary Clooney)
Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe. View quote
Rudolf Otto
The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV. View quote
Rupert Holmes
To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands. View quote
Shane West
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music. View quote
Stanley Crouch
Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess. View quote
Stephan Jenkins
That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms. View quote
Stephan Jenkins
Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things. View quote
Stephen Sprouse
By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum. View quote
Steve Albini
I think there is always room for a timeless sounding rock band like us. View quote
Steve Brown
People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about. (Steve Marriott)
I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music. View quote
Steve Winwood
GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash loved Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, Axl was into Genesis and Elton John, and Duff was a punk rocker. We all blended that stuff together. View quote
Steven Adler
Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously! View quote
Steven Van Zandt
I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot. View quote
Stone Gossard