Rock Quotes

You only get one go at it... might as well Rock it.

~ Tommie Vaughn

Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

~ Mark Knopfler

A pet rock is a serious commitment and too much responsibility for a ten year old to handle on his own

~ Kyle Adams

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

~ Billy Idol

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.

~ Hayley Williams

Rock n' roll is not just a fashion statement; it is the attitude, and it has a political posturing as well.

~ Ceelo Green

I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.

~ Osric Chau

I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.

~ Ted Cruz

In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.

~ John Cameron Mitchell

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.

~ Greg Graffin

My mom is definitely my rock.

~ Alicia Keys

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

~ James Surowiecki

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

~ Stevie Ray Vaughan

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

~ Ozzy Osbourne

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

~ Ozzy Osbourne

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

~ Bruce Dickinson

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

~ Ann Demeulemeester

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

~ Keith Richards

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

~ Nick Rhodes

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

~ Frank Black

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

~ Sting

Good rock music always tends to be around.

~ Dave Davies

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.

~ Giordano Bruno

In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a rock chipped in such a way as to give it a sharp edge, and the discovery is made in a cave, I am seduced into ascribing this to tool use by distant, fetid and furry ancestors.

~ Seth Shostak

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

~ Lee Iacocca

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

~ Sigmund Freud

Just find what works for you, what style suits you best, and just be confident enough to rock it.

~ Odell Beckham

I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

~ Gary Cherone

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing - continue to rock it - because obviously, God wants you here.

~ Kendrick Lamar

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

~ David Harsanyi

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

~ Alec Baldwin

My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.

~ Drake Bell

If I were a rock star, I'd design my own clothes. I'd do it because that's the mark of a true rock star.

~ Shawn Amos

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

~ Tina Charles

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

~ Billie Joe Armstrong

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

~ David Bowie

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

~ Bradley Chicho

Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.

~ Kid Rock