Quotes About Rock

Being a fan of pop music and rock bands, I am a reluctant convert into the art of instrumental rock music.

When rock loses integrity it's time for renewal.

The first half of 'Book Reports' deals with the history of popular music and rock criticism. When I hooked all those historical pieces together, building on the minstrelsy piece, it became my history of popular music.

Most sponges in the ocean are sedentary: They attach themselves to a rock and sit and filter-feed the rest of their lives and reproduce, and that's about it. Not that they are not interesting, but they are not that kinetic. They are not mobile. They don't cook Krabbie Patties!

The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

Pete Townshend keeps fooling us again, selling Who songs to yuppies hungry for SUVs.

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

I've always been into easy music. When I was 15, the record for me was 'Hysteria' by Def Leppard.

At 8, I got my first cassette, which was Def Leppard's 'Hysteria.'

For those who are familiar with my work, 'Soulfire' is a return to how most people identify me, which is that soul-meets-rock thing.

When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.

People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.

I think Green Day's 'American Idiot' is probably the best comeback or mid-career record that any band has done.

I've now met, I would say, almost every single one of my rock idols. I feel like I should just drive off a cliff now.

I care a lot about Heart; I was there at the inception of Heart.

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

Mind is blocking the fountain of intelligence like a rock.

In opulence the heart of great men is as soft as that of a lotus flower, but in adversity the same hardens like a rock of a big mountain.

I was seven years old and my father was trying to get me to shut up and go to bed. He was trying to find something on the radio to put me to sleep and accidentally came across a rock station -- I think it was KIMN in Denver. Suddenly, I was like, 'No! No! Leave it there! I like this!' After that, there was no stopping me.

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees.

Metallica's 'black' album, when I heard that and I heard Lars' playing, and I just was, like, you know, 'Wow! Something really neat's been accomplished here.'