Rocks Quotes · Page 71

You get as much out of rock & roll artistically as you put into it. There's nobody who can teach you. You're…

— Jimmy Page

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

— Nick Lowe

In this country, particularly, actually in times that are difficult, or from corners of America where you least expect it, unbelievable pure…

— Baz Luhrmann

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are…

— Etta James

I think rock records tend to be very expensive.

— Andy Summers

I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!

— Jello Biafra

I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.

— Waylon Jennings

For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

— Stacy Allison

I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.

— Ogden Nash

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

— Little Richard

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

— Sheryl Crow

The Rock is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most electrifying man in sports entertainment today.

— Dwayne Johnson

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock…

— Ronnie Milsap

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

— Chuck Berry

I know that my job is to perform, it wouldn't be a very interesting show if I just came out one day…

— Jon Stewart

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard…

— Harry Reid

You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid…

— David Lee Roth

I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating…

— Anonymous

Eight-man teams drilling expansion bolts in rocks? Sorry, that's not climbing - that's engineering.

— Jeff Lowe

I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or…

— Van Morrison

I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing.

— David Bowie

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

— Loudon Wainwright III

I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves…

— Johnny Marr

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.

— Brad Paisley

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

— Jane Siberry