Rocks Quotes - Page 108

I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.

I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

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

After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals.

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar.

Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.

Wherever there are rock n rollers, well play. Thats what weve been doing for more than 30 years - rock n roll. Its made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

I dont know whos left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, weve got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it till nobody shows up to see it anymore.

I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.

I love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show.

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.

Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand.

I'm gonna rock you 'til your pussaaa's sore.

If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.

I don't like rock opera with back beats.

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

This is quite difficult 'cause I have a really flat head, and so it's quite difficult to get a correct angle. And you can't go up from down below as well, 'cause I've got, like, rock solid gelled hair. And so, like, it was odd. I don't know, sometimes I feel like my head is being, like, turned inside out. Like that episode of Ren & Stimpy when he's inside his own belly button. I don't know.

It's important to realize that everybody who went into country music, and most everybody who went into rock and roll in the '50s, they had no more goal than a hit on the jukebox. Johnny Cash from the very beginning had a goal that he wanted to make music that lifted people's spirits.

I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.

I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

Everyone likes at least one Elvis song....Me, I love them all. He was, is and will remain the ultimate rock star.

Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.