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I mean, nobody's ever thrown a big rock at me or my friends, but we're all pretty tough guys and could probably handle it.
I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.
A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.
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.
It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.
From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?
To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.
Maybe she thought the garbage and rocks in your head were interesting. But finally, garbage is garbage and rocks are rocks.
If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go green
Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.
I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.
I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.
As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.
I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.
Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.
You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.
Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as well as the other.
Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.
If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.
I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].
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.
I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.
So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."
Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.
The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.
This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted.
Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'
Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.
Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.
I've never stuck around long enough to know if anyone would miss me. That's rock 'n' roll, though. Here today, gone tomorrow.
Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.
Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.
Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun.
I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.
Life is beautiful. Be thankful for everything. Destroy your ego. Free hugs. Sing your hearts out in the street. Rock ‘n roll.
There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.
I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.
It don't spit or swear or sleep around. I've always maintained I'm the most radical rock'n'roll singer Britain has ever seen.
When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.
I like to think I have quite a few different styles - sometimes it's a bit rock n' roll, other times more girly and feminine.
I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again.
I hate it when people say that they don't like 'MMMBop.' Everyone likes 'MMMBop.' Whether they like it or not, the song rocks.
You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.
He is the Rock, His work is perfect: For all His ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is He.
Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.
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.