Quotes About Rock

The first record I ever bought was Kiss's 'Destroyer.' And those classic bands like Black Sabbath were my first loves.

I really like Deadmau5 and Coyote Kisses. And Foo Fighters too, I like rock.

I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.

Kurt Cobain is one of the reasons I started doing music because I just loved to watch them rock out.

'Classic rock' is never a label that we've given ourselves - it's one of the many labels that's been imposed on us.

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

She threw open the window to breathe in the spring air, heavy with the sweet perfume of roses and heather. To her right was the rolling glen beckoning her to come and walk. 'Sit here awhile and dream your thoughts on this flat rock.' How often had she done that?

The moon, the earth's silent, smaller sister, pulled together out of dust and rock into this magical silver companion.

The real goal isn't dressing up your life; it's about awakening from what you think is your life! Then you're building your house upon the rock. J's message isn't about fixing up the world.

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&ampB, and the good classic rock.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

A moment comes when you cash in whatever credibility a guy can have who plays and sings rock songs for a living, and you put your chips where you think they might do some good.

Max Weinberg, Garry Tallent, Steve Van Zandt, Danny Federici, Roy Bittan, Clarence Clemons. This was the core of the group that over the next forty years would evolve into the hard-rockin', history-makin', earth-shakin', booty-quakin', lovemakin' and, yes, eventually, Viagra-takin' legendary E Street Band.

The rock death cult is well loved and chronicled in literature and music, but in practice, there ain't much in it for the singer and his song, except a good life unlived, lovers and children left behind, and a six-foot-deep hole in the ground. The exit in a blaze of glory is bullshit.

Fuck the moon landing, that's just a trick of 'The Man'; fuck you, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, let's rock.

REVIEW! We had been recognized by a big-time newspaper music critic as Jersey badasses gone to teach those West Coast sissy boys something about THE ROCK!

In bony, ribby regions of the earth, where at the base of high broken cliffs masses of rock lie strewn in fantastic groupings upon the plain, you will often discover images as of the petrified forms of the Leviathan partly merged in grass, which of a windy day breaks against them in a surf of green surges.

They're fanatics. It's like expecting humanity from a falling rock. It's not going to have a fit of compassion and not crack your skull open.

Jim MacLaine was the hero of Ray Connolly's 1973 movie 'That'll Be the Day', about a young man turning his back on a university education at the turn of the '60s in order to try his hand in a rock n' roll band.

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

Most youngsters are so well-connected with the rock music circle that they will know instantly if I attempt to imitate any rock star.