Menu

Free Literature Study Guides
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Free Literature Study Guides
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Rock Quotes

Survivor is like rock ‘n’ roll – you can do what you want.

– Jeff Probst

The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it’s not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn’t fit.

– Larry Mullen, Jr.

I love what Alabama Shakes is doing – it’s kind of like what grunge did to rock ‘n’ roll, they’re doing to R&B.

– John Oates

I played the guitar. When I was 14, I composed songs – Paul McCartney-style things. I had a rock band – we’d compete in festivals.

– Juan Diego Florez

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

– Lee Iacocca

I do think I have a rebellious, metal-loving rock chick inside of me.

– Kesha

I wouldn’t say being in a film with The Rock was ‘motivating.’ ‘Terrifying’ would be a more accurate description.

– Luke Evans

Rock ‘n’ roll is much easier if you’re white.

– Kid Rock

I’ve never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

– Michael Moore

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.

– Jill Sobule

When you live in Brooklyn, if you throw a rock, you’ll hit a writer – Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster.

– Libba Bray

When rock came in, I wasn’t bitter about it. I was puzzled.

– Jo Stafford

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don’t want to lose any of that.

– Lauren Worsham

To me, true rock ‘n’ roll has a lot of bottom in it.

– Little Richard

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

– Kurt Cobain

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

– Kid Rock

Gangsta rap was the most important movement since the beginning of rock n’ roll.

– Jerry Heller

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

– Jennifer Damiano

When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that’s when I began to say, ‘Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.’ When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.

– Lizzo

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

– Joe Elliott

Hopefully I’m bringing to rock n’ roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

– Joe Perry

Or like in the early 70’s when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

– Lester Bangs

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

– Kevin Hart

I was a sort of rock journalist – whatever that is – in London in the late ’60s.

– Jonathan Demme

We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent inquiries from The Washington Post asking about interviews.

– Ken Starr

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

– James Young

And I can do the rock clubs if I have to.

– Luther Allison

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

– Keith Richards

I am the architect of rock n’ roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

– Little Richard

We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid.

– James Frank

- 1
- 2
- …
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- …
- 19
- 20