Quotes About Rock

Look at Montgomery Gentry. If those boys came out in the '70s, they'd be Southern rock.

I'm a huge Travis Tritt fan. I'm a big Southern rock guy.

The Southern California arena rock, hair metal, laidback hippie garden culture - for many growing up in the '70s and '80s, none of it made us who we were like Lou Reed did.

One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Motley Crue could be the first band to play on the moon.

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

The house was so proud of itself that you wanted to make a lot of noise as you passed, and maybe even throw a rock or two.

Just then, the Tonists began throwing rocks at the trucks. One came in the chief's direction, and he caught it before it could hit him. It wasn't exactly a rock, though. First of all, it was metallic and had hard ridges. He's seen something like this before in history books. Think! What was it called? Oh right--a grenade! And in an instant there was nothing more for the chief to think about.

And a cat never knows fear—finally—he only winds up into the spring of the sea and the rock, and even in a death-fight he does not think of anything except the majesty of darkness.

The big mesa is to this day regarded as an apu, an ancient spirit transfigured into rock.

If she had not been alone, she would never have seen the panther or felt the hope it spread into the world like rings around the splash of a rock thrown into a still lake.

The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.

For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz and you mix it together, and that's my basic makeup.

I kept the first Rickenbacker I ever got, a little short-scale John Lennon-type model. And I've got a couple of 12-string models, which are really nice, and I've got a Pete Townshend model, which Pete gave me a few years ago. But that's about it.

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.

I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.

Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.

When I saw Kiss, and it was monsters with guitars, I thought this was the greatest thing that ever happened.

I love rock music, dance music, so it depends on my mood. But I mainly listen to dance music before going out on court.

Should the Moody Blues be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That's absurd. Of course they should be.

My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.

Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.