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Quotes About Rock

In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago.
~ Jonathan Gold
Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food
~ Steve Albini
A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
~ Salman Rushdie
Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.
~ Kurt Cobain
Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.
~ John Cale
Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.
~ Alice Cooper
To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.
~ Penn Jillette
I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Earth's creatures weren't alone in the universe. I craned my head back to stare at the trailer ceiling and wonder about the cosmos beyond. We were but dots on a miserable speck of a rock tucked into an insignificant corner of the galaxy.
~ Unknown
I was petrified of making a mistake—head-banging to the wrong song or not hard enough, or thinking a guitar solo was over when it wasn't. A rule of thumb is that if the guitar solo is by Led Zep or Lynyrd Skynyrd then it's not over. Ever.
~ Mark Barrowcliffe
Afternoons were whiled away playing guitars to records, singing, reveling in the joy of chords, finding out how almost every rock song they knew could be played with C, F and G or G7.
~ Unknown
My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.
~ Nick Lowe
Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.
~ Win Butler
The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.
~ Iggy Pop
I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.
~ Kurt Cobain
I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.
~ Jon Landau
Technically the barge's hull was only partly existent in reality and therefore couldn't be torn open if it hit a rock. But Kai didn't want to end up arguing with a barge determined that it had been hulled and needed to sink; the canal was too deep for that.
~ Martha Wells
Theories abound about how progressive rock is intrinsically British, whereas in America few bands of this ilk emerged from the late 1960s into the 1970s. One accepted theory is that Europe is the birthplace of classical music, whereas in America, it is the nation's rich blues-based tradition that informs rock history. That supports the theory that 400 years of classical music is in the blood over there
~ Martin Popoff
So our dream was to combine the feeling and the emotional rock potential of The Who and even Zeppelin and bring the complexity of a band like Genesis and Yes. "And we wanted to do that in a three-piece format. We wanted to be the world's most complicated three-piece band.
~ Martin Popoff
A statue stands in a shaded place An angel girl with an upturned face A name is written on a polished rock A broken heart that the world forgot
~ Martina McBride
Love is bullsh... Emotion is bullsh... I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Sweet like candy to my soul ~~ Sweet you rock and sweet you roll ~~ Lost for you I'm so lost for you
~ Dave Matthews Band