Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers. — Bruce Dickinson
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. — Salman Rushdie
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. — Wesley Willis
Rock and roll is about having a good time, so no matter
where you are right now blast some music and forget
about lifes problems. — Andy Biersack
Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe. — Brother Dave Gardner
I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno. — Raf Simons
Turn on, tune up, rock out. — Billy Gibbons
Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll. — Keith Moon
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll. — Keith Richards
My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die. — Neil Young
If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! — Kurt Cobain
Top 10 Rock Music Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time. — Glenn Frey
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything. — David Bowie
A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking. — Lemmy Kilmister
But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last. — Prince
When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole — John Lydon
Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans. — Fats Domino
Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture. — Thelonious Monk
My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity. — Eric Clapton
When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me. — Axl Rose
Rock Music Image Quotes
Love can make you do things that you never thought possible — Phil Collins
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
Classic Rock Music Quotes
I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out. — Kid Rock
When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music. — Chris Martin
Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for — Yuja Wang
Behind every girl's favorite song there is an untold story.
I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain preference too, be honest. — Tommy Wiseau
A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot. — Patti LuPone
I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock. — Brett Favre
Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but get you nowhere.
And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live. — James Young
What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music. — Simon Helberg
I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars. — James Ellroy
Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages. — Frank Zappa
Hard Rock Music Quotes
Live with your memories and keep them as memories and that’s great. Forget the bad times just remember the good ones and you know and hope tomorrow is a good day — Roger Meddows Taylor
At 15, I started listening to hard rock and heavy metal, but I would say it was more hard rock because I liked Kiss, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, and eventually AC/DC. — Rick Rubin
The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it good on a horse's ass. I like to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I like to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way. — Wesley Willis
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right. — Tony Iommi
I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it. — Ritchie Blackmore
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. — Rick Rubin
The earth has music for those who listen.
I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me — Freddie Mercury
We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know?And it was such a turn around, I guess it caught people by surprise. — Karen Carpenter
I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy. — Gary Carter
The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it. — Don Bluth
Punk Rock Music Quotes
This is Manchester, we do things differently here. — Tony Wilson
Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will. — Pete Wentz
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. — Kurt Cobain
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. — Kurt Cobain
The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free. — Steve Albini
I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I’m obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior. — Hayley Williams
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
Punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it. — Iggy Pop
When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training. — Kim Gordon
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. — Avril Lavigne
I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker. — Gemma Arterton
Rock And Roll Music Quotes
Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That's what rock and roll is about. — Pete Townshend
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. — Keith Richards
Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music. — Neil Young
Art is how we decorate space; Music is how we decorate time.
Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy. — Joan Jett
When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues. — Little Richard
Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes. — Elvis Presley
Excuses are the rocks where our dreams are crushed.
I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music. — Graham Nash
Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll. — Bob Seger
Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there. — Dave Grohl
Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar — Eddie Van Halen
Rock N Roll Music Quotes
A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that. — Elvis Presley
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music. — Bobby Vinton
Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar. — Dave Edmunds
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't. — Johnny Depp
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture. — Etta James
People are like Music, some speak the truth and other are just noise
Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners. — Alan Freed
The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from. — Clarence Clemons
If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel. — Buddy Holly
I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV. — Dan Fogelberg
Rock Song Quotes
You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on. — Hank Williams, Jr.
Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy. — Brent Smith
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. — Rupert Holmes
Music is the emotional life of most people.
If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song. — Carl Perkins
It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams! — Jeff Lynne
Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening listening to the liquid song of the hermit thrush, they might enjoy life more. — Tasha Tudor
'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock. — Chris Cornell
In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm. — Giorgio Moroder
Rock n' roll was a bad and evil thing. l remember once I was singing a Barry Manilow song, "Mandy," In the back seat of the car. It came on the radio, and I kind of sang with it, and I got smacked In the mouth because that song was "evil." — Axl Rose
There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad. — Stevie Wonder
Rock Band Quotes
I don't think there are too many rock bands in history that can look at the beginning and middle and ending of themselves and see what I see when I think of Soundgarden. I think from the beginning through the middle and the end it was such a perfect ride and such a perfect legacy to leave. — Chris Cornell
Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting. — Freddie Mercury
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. — Shane West
Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band. — Gene Simmons
A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat. — Paul Westerberg
When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that. — George Thorogood
DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk rock would be walking around on the streets the jocks who learned about Punk through Devo would roll down their windows and yell at the Punks: 'HEY, DEVO!!' — Thurston Moore
If you were to ask me, “What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?” I would say a huge amount. It’s showtime every day, it’s a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band. — Mick Fleetwood
I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music though. — DJ Khaled
Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden. — Bruce Dickinson
Rock N Roll Quotes
Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff. — Fats Domino
Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way. — Axl Rose
I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer. — Axl Rose
The only negative thing about murder is that when you kills someone they can no longer suffer — Varg Vikernes
Life is beautiful. Be thankful for everything. Destroy your ego. Free hugs. Sing your hearts out in the street. Rock ‘n roll. — Ariana Grande
One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue. — James Hetfield
I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver. — Nina Blackwood
It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70. — Freddie Mercury
I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself. — Johnny Winter
You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints. — Carlos Santana
Rock-n-roll Quotes
Be who you want to be and not care about what others think." -Andy Sixx
Rock n roll isn't meant to be taken so seriously, I think sometimes people forget it's meant to be fun. A rock show is meant to be a time for people to have fun and let go of the drudgeries of life. — Andy Biersack
As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player. — Neil Innes
When I see footage of Guns N' Roses, I see that fu**ing hunger and attitude. You could not f**k with those five guys. It was just raw. It was this lean, hungry thing on its way up. It was as sincere as any rock 'n' roll that I've ever heard, and I'm proud of that. — Slash
And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll. — Iggy Pop
I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard. — Paul Westerberg
I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll! — Little Richard
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture. — Paul Thomas Anderson
The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues. — Luther Allison
We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time. — David Lee Roth
Just because I cut the heads off dolls doesn't mean I hate babies, I just hate dolls. — Alice Cooper
Rock Musicians Quotes
God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom. — Kirk Franklin
Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die. — Eddie Van Halen
All I want for my birthday is another birthday. — Ian Dury
If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful. — Johnny Ramone
If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars bar. — Gary Moore
I have a problem with capitalism, in it's extreme sense. At the same time communism, I have a problem with that, because every man must feel like a lord in his own manor. — Jaz Coleman
Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit. — Stephan Jenkins
I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood. — Holly Johnson
All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. — Marc Bolan
I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts. — Fran Drescher
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. — William Congreve
Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother. — Ian Gillan
Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water. Change surroundings and take long journeys. Strictly avoid frightening ideas. Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements. Listen to music. — Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades — Tom Morello
Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles. — Ednita Nazario
I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music. — Kevin Bacon
Most beginners want to learn lead because they think it's cool .. consequently, they never really develop good rhythm skills .. since most of a rock guitarists time is spent playing rhythm, it's important to learn to do it well .. learning lead should come after you can play solid backup and have the sound of the chords in your head — Eddie Van Halen
Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing. — Florence Welch
When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing. — Jonny Greenwood
The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists. — Jimmy Page
We're the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served. — Paul Stanley
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