Quotes About Rock

I think there's this primal need to go to a show when you're a rock fan. And it's about that camaraderie and about that intangible feeling that we all get.

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

I don't think it's changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more rock into country music, then Florida Georgia Line's gonna introduce more dance and more beat-driven stuff into country music. That's just how it's gonna go. So whatever influences you as a kid, you're gonna put in your music.

I'm a fan of Genesis prior to Phil Collins. I don't really like Phil.

I'm about as privileged as you can get. I'm a white, male, heterosexual front man of a rock band.

I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.

I've been listening to this group called the Veils, which I kind of discovered late. I've been really obsessed with this album that they have called 'Nux Vomica,' and I just think it's a brilliantly produced and written rock record.

I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.

And 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll' was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer and the producer, as well. But, it was a very collaborative event. You know, I really love working in that way.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

Some people hate the remixes, some people think it's cool. If you don't like that type of music and just like rock, you probably won't like it. But if you are open to more things, you just might dig it.

I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.

Eliminator' was a big, experimental thing.

I have always tended toward extremism: I'm Motorhead rather than REO Speedwagon.

Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then.

There was a time when pop music and rock music were really reaching for the stars and were not ashamed to be experimental. You think of a song like 'Shout' by Tears for Fears. That's a massive global No. 1 hit, and yet the subject matter is very dark.

I love listening to old school stuff. I listen to some new cats out here, but I'm really into, like, Tech N9ne and his clique; I really like Eminem and those guys - cats that got real flow: I really connect with that. But I do love rock. I love a lot of electronica because I love programming synthesizers.

I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins.

I remember walking into a department store and you would hear an instrumental version of a Beatles song and it was usually kinda cheesy and very un-rock. Kenny G, for example, is a musician that I certainly dont want to sound like, but technically he is flawless but somehow the rock and roll aspect has been sucked out of it.

I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.