Rock Music Quotes

“We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.”

“The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.”

“My parents are kind of young, and my dad always listened to rock music and stuff like that, so I sort of grew up around that. As far as acting goes, I didn't really have any major influences because it wasn't really something that I focused on.”

“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.”

“I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.”

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

“I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.”

“Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.”

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

“I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.”

“That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.”

“Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing with my brother. But I was always drawn back into classical music.”

“It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.”

“There was a time when pop music and rock music were really reaching for the stars and were not ashamed to be experimental. You think of a song like 'Shout' by Tears for Fears. That's a massive global No. 1 hit, and yet the subject matter is very dark.”

“Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music.”

“We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.”

“I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.”

“I was born and raised in Germany, so I was classically trained. Classical has been deep in me from a totally early age. Then, as a teenager, I picked up the guitar and was really into rock music.”

“It wasn't just music in the Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music - it was a whole push outwards to say something new and different.”

“I grew up listening to the alternative rock music from the '90s. Some of my favorite bands included Dinosaur Jr, Guided By Voices, and Cobra Verde.”