Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.
Elvis Costello

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.
Kirk Hammett

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.
Little Richard

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.
Little Richard

The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad.
Chuck Klosterman

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll.
Chuck Klosterman

Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.
Little Richard

God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.
Little Richard

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
Little Richard

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.
Little Richard

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.
Martin Gore

You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.
Rick James

After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.
Rick James

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.
Patti Smith

Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?
Patti Smith

It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.
Phil Collins

Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.
Phil Collins

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.
James Daly

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
Bjork

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.
Alice Cooper