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
In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.' — Joan Jett
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
Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane. — Dave Eggers
It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me. — Chuck Berry
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. — Salman Rushdie
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
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers. — Bruce Dickinson
I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well. — Haley Reinhart
Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood. — Joey Ramone
I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno. — Raf Simons
Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe. — Brother Dave Gardner
I'm more like an animalistic rock chick. — Taryn Manning
Short Rock Song Quotes
Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll. — Keith Moon
My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die. — Neil Young
Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity. — George Thorogood
All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll. — Bon Scott
What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun? — Pete Wentz
Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul. — Ringo Starr
I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer. — Robert Plant
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old. — Chuck Berry
Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn. — Nikki Sixx
Rock Song Image Quotes
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Classic Rock Song 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
A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away. — Kurt Cobain
Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By. — Randall Jarrell
Behind every girl's favorite song there is an untold story.
Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do. — George Thorogood
Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs. — Don Dokken
I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem. — Joe Elliott
Good Rock Song Quotes
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. — Pete Townshend
I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it. — Vince Neil
I was pretty shocked [having concert in the Madison Square Garden]. It could have gone either way. But I think it's the right time. Nobody does what we do with taking the visuals and making it a complete rock 'n' roll show with the really good songs. Nobody's done that in a long time. — Vince Neil
Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but get you nowhere.
I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old. — Justin Townes Earle
Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves. — James Young
In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that. — Bryce Dessner
Find the tribe that knows your song.
I have so many songs, it's ridiculous. I love so many different types of music and tend to write all over the map, style-wise. R&B, rock 'n' roll, screamers, pop, good-time songs. — Taryn Manning
If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll. — Creed Bratton
For music, I always just played music myself - and, I had rock bands and wrote songs and put bands together that were loud, but not especially good. That was sort of the place music had in my career. — Michael Cerveris
My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock...whatever you want to call it is OK with me. — Kate Voegele
Punk Rock Song Quotes
Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs. — Andy Biersack
When I began to cover songs for YouTube, they all tended to be in the super pop-genre.. as in, smash-hit songs. My writing process was heavily influenced by this - I went from a more heavy punk rock style to straight up sugary-sweet pop. — Alex Goot
The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll. — Jerry Only
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. — Henry Rollins
Every girl wants songs written about her. Even the most hardened tattoo-covered punk rock girl would love a nice ballad written for her. — Eef Barzelay
I've played death metal, punk rock, hardcore, funk... I've done it all. And all there really is music and at the end of the day, anybody who has a record and puts out a record that's basically the same song 13 times over on one record; to me they're just cheating the fans. — Cristian Machado
Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
The boys in the office preferred Daft Punk and the song "Robot Rock" as an anthem, speaking excitedly and without irony about wanting to become robots one day. That made me wonder: Why? What's the pull of being a robot? — Katherine Losse
I started playing guitar when I was in eighth grade, and that led to trying to write songs and trying to figure out how to play in bands. That led to meeting people, and getting into the local punk rock scene, and going to shows. So that was how I really got into the culture of it. — Chris McCaughan
The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll. — Gerald Caiafa
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
The things that seem insignificant to most people such as note, song, or walk become invaluable trasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.
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
Those who wish to sing... always find a song.
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 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
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
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
Excuses are the rocks where our dreams are crushed.
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
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’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
Rock N Roll Music Quotes
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
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
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
When you hear the music ringin' in your soul
And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows
And it comes from the backstreet rock & roll and the healing has begun... — Van Morrison
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.' — Elvis Presley
I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom. — Sinead O'Connor
Rock Star Quotes
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up. — Chester Bennington
There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment. — Paul Theroux
There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. — Josh Groban
I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend. — Freddie Mercury
Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street. — Vince Neil
Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die. — Eddie Van Halen
I'm not really a fan of, like, rock stars, movie stars, people like that. I like politics. — Alex Jones
In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else. — Ric Flair
We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. — Chuck Palahniuk
I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star! — Tommy Hilfiger
Country Song Quotes
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling. — Ric Ocasek
In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine. — George Strait
You're the only one and only
My heart's beating for
I love you, need I say more — George Strait
Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down. — Kenny Chesney
God gave me you for the ups and downs and days of doubts. — Blake Shelton
Be a best friend. Tell the truth. And overuse "I love you" — Lee Brice
No one can make me cry
Make me laugh
Make me smile
Or drive me mad like she does — Kenny Chesney
Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song? — Francis Scott Key
You'll be my glass of wine
I'll be your shot of whiskey — Blake Shelton
The road goes on forever and the party never ends. — Robert Earl Keen
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
If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song. — Carl Perkins
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
With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to record an album. But for a hip-hop song, you can create a track and an idea with verses and choruses in a day, and get three different people on it. It seems like you're able to do more with hip-hop. — Travis Barker
As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names... 'The Thing That Shouldn't Be'. 'The Chair That Wasn't There', you know? — Bill Burr
David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote. — David Bowie
I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always loved music. Started out loving to sing to the standards and songs of the early 50s, then that interest shifted to rock and roll, Motown, folk. — Timothy B. Schmit
Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it. — Krist Novoselic
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. — Bon Scott
The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo. — David Lee Roth
Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation. — Brian May
If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers. — Tom Lehrer
Whether it be a reggae song, rock song, a love song, the main thing was just to, whatever I was feeling, to try to capture that emotion. — Bruno Mars
Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in '94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it. — Jason Aldean
This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. — John Mellencamp
My feelings are, if you're gonna lead a rock n' roll lifestyle, don't let it affect your work. I know I can stay up all night and still come in the next day and write a song, and nothing will stop me from doing it. I expect the same from everyone else. — Marilyn Manson
That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true. — Robert Englund
I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day. — Al Yankovic
Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants' — Bruce Springsteen
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that. — David Bowie
This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright. — George Harrison
Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her. — Kim Mitchell
I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the song, I turn it up and start to sing. — Nicolas Winding Refn
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet. — Corey Taylor
My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit. — Kanye West
There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material. — Noel Gallagher
What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs. — Dave Grohl
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