Rock Quotes

He is the rock on the beach of our national ocean against which the breakers dash and roar.

When I grew up, I had influences as diverse as Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix.

We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is a perspective on human life and our culture that is well worth pondering.

We've played everywhere since I started The Licks. We've played arenas, clubs, school cafeterias and bowling alleys. It doesn't matter where the venue is; we're gonna bring you the rock!

Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar.

Everyone wanted to play like Eric Clapton in the early to mid-'60s.

My dad, he's the rocker.

Gentlemen: On this rock the future success of South Africa will be built.

I love Kings of Leon.

I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take that out of it and put in a guitar or keyboard, it would be considered funk-rock music.

I've been a huge Gregg Allman fan since first hearing the Brothers' live 'Fillmore' album.

I love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.'

Especially, I don't want to ever be compared to The Rock because I'd be the poor man's version of The Rock. I'm just not him; it's not who I am as a person or as a performer. The Rock's very big and bold, and I'm not.

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

Y'know, it's funny: I didn't think I'd be playing 'Hold The Line' at 60 years old. I was 19 when I first played that.

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

Just give me a mic, and I'll rock it.

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

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

It's nice sometimes to be the river rather than the rock.

One of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said "Okay, I'm gonna tell you what to do. If the kid's bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.

Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.