Quotes About Rock

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

One thing rap and rock have in common, a lot of it is focused on negativity. I like dark stuff.

There's not too many one-producer rap albums. There are lot of one-producer rock albums... and country albums.

I just like heavy music in general - from heavy rock and heavy metal and heavy rap and heavy everything. I've always been attracted to it.

It's funny: I've seen a lot of the rock attitude come into play in the rap world, where it's like they're angry, or there's this defiance going on, and there's a lot of danger, and it's actually really encouraging; they're opening the door for us to kind of move on in again.

The industry is so oversaturated with these fly-by-night rappers who come in and come out. People who say 'rock is dead,' it's because of that. It's because of what's out there saturating the industry.

People in rock had this idea that rappers aren't talented. In my opinion we're better writers, we think deeper, and our concepts are harder - Rap evolves faster than any other genre.

I'm one of those rare breed of rock n' rollers with a brain, probably because the brain's still intact.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

I've never seen myself as a pop singer. I grew up listening to gospel, soul and rock. My approach to pop is that, when I was doing my album, I wanted to have raw, genuine lyrics, but wanted it to be easy to process.

Even though I was a rock 'n' roll fan, hearing the raw blues was like listening to music on a much deeper kind of level.

When George W. Bush was up for re-election, we took part in Rock Against Bush.

'Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.

Fan reaction is so out-sized and hyperbolic in rock music compared to other arts.

First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.

Poco was the forerunners of country rock, but didn't really have the success. By the time the Eagles were out, people were ready for it.

I'm ready to rock and roll.

I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie rock.

I've liked Kiss from when I was three years old. I've seen them, the real deal, with all the original members when they came back in '96 and all that, and that's fine.

British rock & roll became the gospel for American kids like me.

I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.

I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!

I show rock and rollers how to grow old gracefully.