120 Rock Star Quotes

Following is our list of rock star quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about being a rock star.

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Famous Rock Star Quotes

When all else fails...be a rockstar — Billie Joe Armstrong

Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me. — James Daly

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star. — Rod Stewart

Being a rockstar is the intersection of who you are and who you want to be. — Slash

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention. — Gene Simmons

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both. — Bono

Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die. - Eddie Van Halen

Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die. — Eddie Van Halen

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend. - Freddie Mercury

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend. — Freddie Mercury

Potty mouth, rock star, at the top and still tryna climb, Drop the top sit back recline — French Montana

I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star! — Tommy Hilfiger

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

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer. — Robert Plant

Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent. — Kim Fowley

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

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

Short Rock Star Quotes

  • I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver. — Nina Blackwood
  • Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star. — Amy Lee
  • I'm more like an animalistic rock chick. — Taryn Manning
  • My God is rock'n'roll. — Lou Reed
  • Turn on, tune up, rock out. — Billy Gibbons
  • A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace. — Will Ferrell
  • If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar. — Krist Novoselic
  • I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. — David Bowie
  • Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. — David Bailey
  • Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane. — Dave Eggers

Top 10 Rock Star Quotes

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

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

I'm not really a fan of, like, rock stars, movie stars, people like that. I like politics. — Alex Jones

You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family. — Eddie Van Halen

Whether you’re an athlete, an entrepreneur, a CEO, a rock star, or you’re just starting out in life, know what you know and what you don’t know. — Tim Grover

The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both. — Donatella Versace

I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion. — Roberto Cavalli

I would rather be a security guard than a rock star. — Bruce McCulloch

Marketing is telling the world you're a rock star. Content marketing is showing the world you are one. — Tom Fishburne

Rock Star Image Quotes

Rock star quote You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Rock Star Movie Quotes

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

In fact, I was welcomed. There were movie stars and rock stars. I became a pot star. I glorified in that. And of course as time wore on the business began to expand and grow. It went from more or less a college fun thing to a serious business. As the money grew, the power grew. — George Jung

Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet. — Matthew Lillard

Rock star quote If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the st
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them. — Matt Smith

I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public. — Elizabeth Berkley

Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique. — Nikki Sixx

Rock star quote When it rains, look for rainbows. When it's dark, look for stars.
When it rains, look for rainbows. When it's dark, look for stars.

I am not a rock star or a movie star; I'm a businessperson. I definitely know who my friends are. I'm much more open and trusting than, say, my daughter is. — Martha Stewart

Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star. I was a coke star. — George Jung

I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars. — Dave Grohl

Can't do any work with a rock star; you have to go through their lawyers and their agents and their managers and you have to book them hotel rooms. When you work with your friends, you just call them up and they come over and you record and then you go out to see a movie. — Moby

Being A Rock Star Quotes

You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit. — James Wolk

I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins. — Billy Corgan

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect. — Brian Molko

Rock star quote I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the star
I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music. — Chris Martin

In true rock star fashiuon, I had insomina last night and I didn't sleep at all. So all I need is a bottle of Jack Daniels and some groupies, and I'll be just like David Lee Roth. — Chris Jericho

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff. — Gene Simmons

Rock star quote Just as the water reflects the stars and the moon, the body reflects the mind and soul.
Just as the water reflects the stars and the moon, the body reflects the mind and soul.

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have. — Daniel Johns

I don't think you can be a mysterious rock star the same way you could in 1965 because there's too much information. Everything you do is available all the time. So the only thing you can rely on is not being false. — Chris Martin

I don't want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags. — Mick Jagger

If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one — Marilyn Manson

Movie Star Quotes

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star. - Richard Pryor

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star. — Richard Pryor

In my experience, there's no such thing as luck. - George Lucas

In my experience, there's no such thing as luck. — George Lucas

May the Force be with you. - George Lucas

May the Force be with you. — George Lucas

Rock star quote I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

I liked how 'Star Wars' felt both old and new. — Akira Toriyama

Get real. You are not the star of the movie. Most of what happens around you isn’t about you at all. There are infinite numbers of other movies. In those, if you feature at all, you’re just a supporting actor. It would really help your happiness if you started to look at your life that way. — Mo Gawdat

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles. — Faye Dunaway

Rock star quote Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but get you nowhere.
Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but get you nowhere.

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it. — Lukas Foss

You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars. — Wilt Chamberlain

Stop being a supporting player in the movie that is your life. Become the movie star. This is a hero's journey you have embarked upon. It's high time you start acting like it. — Rich Roll

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. — Harrison Ford

Rock Song Quotes

But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last. — Prince

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

You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on. — Hank Williams, Jr.

Rock star quote Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy. — Brent Smith

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

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

Rock star quote Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

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

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

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

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More Rock Star Quotes

Gonzo . . . acidic hilarity . . . 'The Fun Parts' has fine moments, but it's not the whole Lipsyte story. Read it with 'The Ask' if you really want to know how a mordant jokester with a madman's imagination became a literary rock star. — Janet Maslin

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment. — Liv Tyler

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well. — Bob Geldof

I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist. — ASAP Rocky

Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top. — Jonathan Davis

I was blessed, because I come from a family where they knock you down before you float away. I have a lot of brothers who just make sure we have our feet on the ground, and my mom is a rock star. She is an amazing mother. — Kellan Lutz

Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal. — Alice Cooper

I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, Git r done! — Larry the Cable Guy

Rock star, flier than an ostrich... — Juelz Santana

Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel, a boy in college once called her, begging her to let it grow. Right! That was all she needed: wild curls cascading down her back like a doomed Shakespearian virgin, or a rock star. — Naomi Ragen

The shower is my time to open up my operatic chops, because of the enormous echo. You sound five times as big in the shower, so I break into some "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini 's Turandot or Pearl Jam. You've got to go big when you're in the shower. There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. — Josh Groban

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

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