Whether it’s a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave. – Diablo Cody
As soon as you pick up a guitar, you’re up against the legends of rock. The same goes with stadium drum kits and electric bass. Essentially, you’re already in a soundscape that’s very familiar and has a lot of established legendary material recorded using those instruments. – Matt Bellamy
Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don’t have a connection with punk rock – I just never had that experience. – Cat Power
There’s always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll. – Nikki Sixx
Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock ‘n’ roll movie. – Edward Furlong
Do glassmakers not have the ability to knead their own agates, marbles and rock crystals? – Emile Galle
If I was money-motivated, I wouldn’t have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys. – Daron Malakian
I’m not one of those spoiled rock stars who complains about how tedious it is to perform my old hits. – Maria Muldaur
There’s always gonna be rock n’ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n’ roll records, and there will always be rock n’ roll. – Dave Grohl
James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people’s attention. – Gene Simmons
What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues. – Ellen Willis
I’m influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, and then by bluegrass. But when I was 16, bluegrass wasn’t cool. We was rock n’ rollers then: Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis. – Dickey Betts
Mick Jagger can’t even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was. – Don Henley
There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s. – Gary Burton
When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween. – Gavin DeGraw
Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. – so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well. – Dave Haywood
In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination. – David Harsanyi
I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn’t into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, ‘Mr. Cole does not rock n’ roll.’ – Natalie Cole
We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there. – Mike Lowry
I was always fascinated with rock ‘n’ roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid. – Gary Sinise
