Quotes About Rock

Pantera is one of our biggest influences, as it should be for anyone who listens to rock 'n' roll.

There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles and from there I just loved rock music.

Bob Seger was a huge inspiration.

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Oh, I love Rock to death, man. He doesn't inspire me as an actor but, I mean, come on.

AC/DC is like a... It's an institution, for a start. The fans feel a part of the family, and that's a good feeling.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

I'm a big fan of power trios where there's only three instruments.

Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, it became, 'Now I'm going to force my entire family to watch me perform all these rock songs.'

There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.

The female mind is a different thing altogether," he added quickly, "and quite delightful in its own right! But too much intellect would spoil and flatten it, like a rock in a soufflé.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

The Bible's picture of a godly leader also describes the godly home: "A shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock" (Isaiah 32:2). May that be true of your home.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical itself. It's interesting to see that development.

Progressive rock was the enemy in 1976. And it still is. And it has many, many faces. This beast is lurking everywhere. It can describe itself as indie rock. It's the same [blanking] thing. It's misery. I have seen so many great minds struck down by it.

Anyone who finds there way to the front of a rock band, standing in the spotlight in the center of the stage, has definitely got a Messianic complex, and the shy ones, the kind of "oh, how did this happen to me" ones, they're the very worst kinds of Messianic complex. A lot of artists play that.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

Rock music is niche.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.