Rock music quotes

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◆ You promise me the sky, then toss me like a stone. You wrap me in your arms, and chill me to the bone. Telling me to go, but hands beg me to stay. your lips say that you love, your eyes say that you hate.

- Linkin Park100

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

- Manuel Puig99

◆ I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

- Ted Nugent99

◆ I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

- Ikue Mori99

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

- Bruce Dickinson99

◆ 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.

- Buddy Holly99

◆ I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

- Gerard Butler99

◆ 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.

- Warren Jeffs99

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

- Steve Brown99

◆ Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

- Ritchie Blackmore99

◆ I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

- Chester Bennington99

◆ In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

- Travis Barker99

◆ Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

- Vivian Campbell99

◆ Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board.

- Matt Cameron99

◆ We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know? And it was such a turnaround, I guess it caught people by surprise.

- Karen Carpenter99