Quotes about Rock Music

Good rock music always tends to be around. Votes: 3

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. Votes: 3

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it! Votes: 3

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification. Votes: 3

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject. Votes: 3

To encourage children into Rock Music is to place them into the white hot arms of Molech and the beat and power behind the music will drown out the cries of your child as occultic powers consume him and drag him into the fires of hell! Votes: 3

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music. Votes: 2

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes. Votes: 2

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. Votes: 2

I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends. Votes: 2

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms. Votes: 2

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it. Votes: 2

Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time. Votes: 2

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place. Votes: 2

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon. Votes: 2

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life. Votes: 2

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio. Votes: 2

Willow and I definitely talked about doing a collaboration. She really loves rock music, so she wants to come on and get crazy with me on a track. Which I would love, because she has a fantastic voice. Votes: 2

Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music will always look out for me. But I will not let my torture profanity demon shoot it down. Votes: 2

I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music. Votes: 2

Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That's what rock and roll is about. Votes: 2

Rock music is niche. Votes: 1

Rock music is not meant to be perfect. Votes: 1

There's more to life than listening to rock music. Votes: 1

Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved. Votes: 1

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt. Votes: 1

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house. Votes: 1

I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest! Votes: 1

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. Votes: 1

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable. Votes: 1

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot. Votes: 1

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music. Votes: 1

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical. Votes: 1

I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One More Time' on the radio and I thought 'What is this?' I was eight and it changed my life. Votes: 1

I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me. Votes: 1

The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know. Votes: 1

When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15. Votes: 1

In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that. Votes: 1

When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute. Votes: 1

Classical music can rock you! Votes: 0

Rock's always been the devil's music. Votes: 0

Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion Votes: 0

It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll) Votes: 0

Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty. Votes: 0

If your playing basic music, its just rock. Votes: 0

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards. Votes: 0

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock. Votes: 0

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved. Votes: 0

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music. Votes: 0

I don't think rock music has any positive function. Votes: 0

There's more to life than listening to rock music. Votes: 0

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived. Votes: 0

I don't listen to a ton of rock music. Votes: 0

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though. Votes: 0

I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks. Votes: 0

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off. Votes: 0

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down. Votes: 0

Rock music will never die. We all know that. Votes: 0

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music. Votes: 0

Rock music is becoming stale. Let's put the fun back. Votes: 0

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll. Votes: 0

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music. Votes: 0

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music. Votes: 0

Anti-parent music seems to be all the pop-rock market wants. Votes: 0

Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe. Votes: 0

I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic. Votes: 0

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together. Votes: 0

There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars. Votes: 0

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music. Votes: 0

Without music the world will still turn, but it won't rock. Votes: 0

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds. Votes: 0

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music. Votes: 0

Soft rock music isn't rock, and it ain't music. It's just soft. Votes: 0

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you. Votes: 0

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll. Votes: 0

I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music. Votes: 0

When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled. Votes: 0

Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul? Votes: 0

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music. Votes: 0

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap. Votes: 0

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. Votes: 0

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids. Votes: 0

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me. Votes: 0

Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. Votes: 0

Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers Votes: 0

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance. Votes: 0

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it. Votes: 0

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation. Votes: 0

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring. Votes: 0

I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music though. Votes: 0

I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music! Votes: 0

Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles. Votes: 0

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan. Votes: 0

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum. Votes: 0

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music. Votes: 0

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum Votes: 0

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music. Votes: 0

It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music. Votes: 0

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so. Votes: 0

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy. Votes: 0

My world is much bigger than music, and that's why I always fight the 'rock' label. Votes: 0

I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist. Votes: 0

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will, Votes: 0

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff. Votes: 0

No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock. Votes: 0

Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now. Votes: 0

I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen. Votes: 0

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade. Votes: 0

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock. Votes: 0

I'm definitely really into rock music, and I feel like that is where my heart is. Votes: 0

A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio. Votes: 0

I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music. Votes: 0

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. Votes: 0

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy. Votes: 0

I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old. Votes: 0

I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, lets be honest! Votes: 0

It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way. Votes: 0

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten. Votes: 0

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical. Votes: 0

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus. Votes: 0

I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves. Votes: 0

I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock. Votes: 0

In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't. Votes: 0

We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time. Votes: 0

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. Votes: 0

As much as I like to explore the world, I explore music - from classical to rock. Votes: 0

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz. Votes: 0

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music. Votes: 0

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now. Votes: 0

That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible. Votes: 0

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good. Votes: 0

For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West. Votes: 0

You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless. Votes: 0

I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock. Votes: 0

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music. Votes: 0

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever. Votes: 0

I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice. Votes: 0

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well. Votes: 0

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot. Votes: 0

But my everyday music is classic rock. It's what I relate to the most and where my heart is. Votes: 0

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll. Votes: 0

I love pop music just as much as I like rap music, or ill-ass hip-hop music, or rock music. Votes: 0

I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music. Votes: 0

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock. Votes: 0

The whole city [Manchester] just a real rock music vibe. It reminded me a lot of where I'm from. Votes: 0

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. Votes: 0

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me. Votes: 0

I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer. Votes: 0

Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music. Votes: 0

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. Votes: 0

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer. Votes: 0

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar. Votes: 0

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores. Votes: 0

I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star. Votes: 0

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music. Votes: 0

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it. Votes: 0

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe. Votes: 0

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music. Votes: 0

When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist. Votes: 0

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant. Votes: 0

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music. Votes: 0

There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music. Votes: 0

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend. Votes: 0

Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar. Votes: 0

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing. Votes: 0

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me." Votes: 0

I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll. Votes: 0

I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice. Votes: 0

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto. Votes: 0

I started going to rock shows at a really young age, and seeing other young people make music definitely influenced me. Votes: 0

Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh. Votes: 0

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music. Votes: 0

This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll. Votes: 0

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly. Votes: 0

I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts. Votes: 0

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story. Votes: 0

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music. Votes: 0

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write. Votes: 0

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something]. Votes: 0

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy. Votes: 0

If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with. Votes: 0

What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching. Votes: 0

I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop. Votes: 0

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music. Votes: 0

Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that. Votes: 0

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. Votes: 0

I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together. Votes: 0

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is. Votes: 0

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. Votes: 0

I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade. Votes: 0

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'. Votes: 0

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up. Votes: 0

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing. Votes: 0

All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll? Votes: 0

I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll. Votes: 0

Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me over. Votes: 0

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force. Votes: 0

A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones. Votes: 0

My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice. Votes: 0

Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head. Votes: 0

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. Votes: 0

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys. Votes: 0

It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn. Votes: 0

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free, Votes: 0

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. Votes: 0

Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music. Votes: 0

Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion. Votes: 0

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is. Votes: 0

I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool. Votes: 0

Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n' roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties. Votes: 0

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game. Votes: 0

Rock has always been THE DEVIL'S MUSIC . . . I believe rock and roll is dangerous . . . I feel we're only heralding SOMETHING EVEN DARKER THAN OURSELVES. Votes: 0

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. Votes: 0

There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music. Votes: 0

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV. Votes: 0

I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins. Votes: 0

My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural. Votes: 0

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts. Votes: 0

I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop. Votes: 0

Some say it's too country, some say it's too rock n' roll. But it's just good music if you can feel it in your soul. Votes: 0

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form. Votes: 0

Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By... Votes: 0

I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence. Votes: 0

The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business. Votes: 0

Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth. Votes: 0

Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted. Votes: 0

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans. Votes: 0

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band. Votes: 0

Rock and roll is about having a good time, so no matter where you are right now blast some music and forget about lifes problems. Votes: 0

I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence. Votes: 0

I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans. Votes: 0

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock. Votes: 0

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever. Votes: 0

Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes. Votes: 0

It's such a lonely existence, living with a rock n' roller. No matter how much he loves you, he will always love his music more. Votes: 0

I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music. Votes: 0

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs. Votes: 0

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it. Votes: 0

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music. Votes: 0

I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes. Votes: 0

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music. Votes: 0

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury. Votes: 0

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be. Votes: 0

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll. Votes: 0

Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music. Votes: 0

I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain preference too, be honest. Votes: 0

Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard. Votes: 0

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music. Votes: 0

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America. Votes: 0

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. Votes: 0

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all. Votes: 0

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind. Votes: 0

As much as I make my music for me, I make it for the people who rock with me and follow me. They're the inspiration behind it. Votes: 0

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything. Votes: 0

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.' Votes: 0

Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing... or producing. Votes: 0

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started. Votes: 0

When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old. Votes: 0

I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever. Votes: 0

I've been trying to challenge myself to be more explicit. I've always liked punk rock and Sonic Youth. I make that music privately, but I've never released it. Votes: 0

Listening to hard rock on the subway doesn't work for me, especially modern hard rock. Driving in L.A. helped me to understand the appeal of that music. Votes: 0

My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school. Votes: 0

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people. Votes: 0

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training. Votes: 0

Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley! Votes: 0

Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal. Votes: 0

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music. Votes: 0

I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don't always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock. Votes: 0

Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide. Votes: 0

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music. Votes: 0

Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter. Votes: 0

People who love R&B will love my music, people who love rock will love my music. It's soulful, it's pop. It's a sound that relates to everyone. Votes: 0

America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Votes: 0

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music." Votes: 0

I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music. Votes: 0

Everything combines for the works of Merzbow. I don't see them as being different and separate. ...Music and art is not separate. I mix rock sounds and art together . Votes: 0

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock 'n' roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel. Votes: 0

Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords. Votes: 0

The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock n' roll from a medium that was about cars and girls and gave it context, interesting chord changes and true musicianship. Votes: 0

I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements. Votes: 0

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really. Votes: 0

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers. Votes: 0

Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it. Votes: 0

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music. Votes: 0

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen. Votes: 0

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock Votes: 0

I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star. Votes: 0

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there. Votes: 0

Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you. Votes: 0

There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen. Votes: 0

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.' Votes: 0

It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal. Votes: 0

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock. Votes: 0

Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing. Votes: 0

It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me. Votes: 0

There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain. Votes: 0

I love dogs. I think dogs are way smarter. Maybe I can be the dog spokesman for the rock world. There are a lot of cat people making rock music. Votes: 0

It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve Allen Show that got me into rock music. Votes: 0

Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records? Votes: 0

Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth. Votes: 0

Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way. Votes: 0

If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock music, and we were a part of that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface. Votes: 0

Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved. Votes: 0

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night. Votes: 0

Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for Votes: 0

I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do. Votes: 0

I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music. Votes: 0

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music. Votes: 0

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square. Votes: 0

I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both. Votes: 0

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students. Votes: 0

Bringing people together is one of my favorite things... I believed that's what a rock 'n' roll Jesus would really do - bring people together through music. Votes: 0

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop. Votes: 0