Quotes About Rock

My whole game plan, at first, was I wanted to rock out as hard as I could because usually you're old by the time you're 24.

We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.

I'm not really into the rock n' roll lifestyle; I'm a music geek!

One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.

If you try to do a genuine rock musical, rock people will think you're flaccid and Broadway audiences will think you're too loud.

I think something like rock week, especially when there's a live band and it's very themed, it feels like it's not very genuine.

On 'Fuzz Universe,' I think I've taken a giant step closer to the ultimate rock guitar sound and playing of my dreams.

AC/DC is a tough gig for everyone in the band.

I thought the Runaways always got brushed under the rug. The Go-Go's, at least they always gave us credit.

Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing are the gods of double-guitar axemanship.

We were the first generation of rock & roll, but life goes on.

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n' roll thing going on.

The moon's a dead rock, but I still like the word, so black in its white space. […] what can we say to the moon except You again? You again.

The air is fresher here. Rock walls rise on either side of me. They must be the bowl of the volcano.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.

Basically, I like anything with guts - Lead Belly, Bill Big Broonzy, Johnny Winter, the Stones.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

I never wished to be a 'rock star.' I just wanted to be a working musician. My dreams didn't even go past a session player or a working musician. It was too far beyond my dreams.

'Dirtbag' is just the term we use, like a 'gnarly dude' in surfing. Within the climbing culture, it means being a committed lifer: someone who has embraced a minimalist ethic in order to rock climb. It basically means you're a homeless person by choice.

When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.

A lot of my friends, they think I grew up to rock and roll, but I didn't. I grew up to Hank Williams, Jimmy Reid, Howlin' Wolf, listening to a race record, blues.

A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.