Quotes About Rock

I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music though.

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.

I smash guitars because I like them.

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.

I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool.

Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe.

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

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.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.

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.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.