Quotes About Rock

If we have to put music into baskets, then the progressive rock bands I fell in love with as a teenager made sounds that shaded into jazz, folk, metal, and in the case of the wonderful (and sadly missed) Jon Lord, modern classical music.

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet.

If rock criticism is to be a political calling, which has always been my angle, that's obviously not because it's a fountainhead of protest songs.

If it wasn't for guys like Gary Moore, I wouldn't exist. He not only proved that the blues could rock but it could draw a crowd as well. All of which made a huge impression on me.

they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

Family has always been very important to my life. Even though I make my living as an artist, my creativity is merely a fantasy world. Having a close family has been a stabilizing rock for me.

If you're looking for light entertainment, you can't get much lighter than 'Bye Bye Birdie,' a flyweight farce about the coming of rock n' roll to small-town America.

I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!

All of my favorite music was probably in the rock category.

I have this fascination with being on the road, all things music, and the '70s. My favorite movie is 'Almost Famous.'

I've got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.

Rock guitar is one of my favourite sounds.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

With every performance I just feel more energized somehow. Like, this is how I exercise! This is how I feed my ego, by playing this loud rock music.

The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.

My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

I had the Foo Fighters' 'Live at Hyde Park' DVD, and my dad had the AC/DC box set, and I used to watch them all the time.

You throw a rock in Hollywood and you're going to hit someone in the film industry.

When I'm not filming, I do rock n' roll; when I'm not doing rock n' roll, I do filming.

To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.

I listened to all kinds of music: rock, pop, R & B. But country was always my first love.

The whole thing about 'The Rover' is the whole swagger of it, the whole guitar attitude swagger. I'm afraid I've got to say it, but it's the sort of thing that is so apparent when you hear 'Rumble' by Link Wray - it's just total attitude, isn't it?