Quotes about Old Rock

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. Votes: 4

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: 4

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock. Votes: 4

Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker. Votes: 3

You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll. Votes: 3

That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true. Votes: 3

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion. Votes: 3

I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans. Votes: 3

As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn't compose in the early American rock tradition. Votes: 3

Looking at the Obamas, it's like my father and my mother 43 years later. It was the same old rock star thing, and I think Barack is continuing what my father did with true consciousness, true ability, and a global view. Votes: 3

I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all. Votes: 3

Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary. Votes: 3

Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it. Votes: 3

I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave. Votes: 3

People have said on blogs - which is kind of where I decide where to describe my style, from other people telling me - so I don't know, people say it's like, "electro-pop with glam and old rock influences." Or it's "indie pop" or whatever that means. Votes: 3

I love old school rock and roll. Votes: 2

Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock. Votes: 2

I like a lot of old-school R&B, soul, and classic rock. Votes: 2

I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally. Votes: 2

Rock n' roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me. Votes: 2

I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy. Votes: 2

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock. Votes: 2

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff. Votes: 2

The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over. Votes: 2

In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old. Votes: 2

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. Votes: 2

I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock. Votes: 2

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement. Votes: 2

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset. Votes: 2

My goal is to get quieter as I get older. Votes: 2

I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff. Votes: 2

I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out. Votes: 2

A rock star never gets old! Votes: 0

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock. Votes: 0

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old, Votes: 0

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

I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll. Votes: 0

I don t wanna see old people on a rock & roll stage. Votes: 0

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock. Votes: 0

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included. Votes: 0

If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are. Votes: 0

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me. Votes: 0

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me. Votes: 0

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

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe. Votes: 0

Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating. Votes: 0

I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Votes: 0

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered, Votes: 0

All cats old enough to catch thier own prey,gather here under the High Rock for a clan meeting! 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

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

I'm not one of those spoiled rock stars who complains about how tedious it is to perform my old hits. Votes: 0

I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll. Votes: 0

I like whatever's good. Metal, rock, new or old - I don't care, as long as it does something to my brain. Votes: 0

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old. Votes: 0

I love to rock, but it's liberating not to always have to keep up with the freight train that is the Old 97's 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

Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time. Votes: 0

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger. Votes: 0

Cold Mountain cold Ice freezes rock Mountains are green Snow is white Sun shines bright Every thing melt Every thing warm Warms old man Votes: 0

And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic Votes: 0

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything. Votes: 0