The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
Robert Morgan

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

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.
Billy Corgan

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.
Robert Wyatt

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.
Robert Wyatt

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
Sting

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
Sting

This guy kept telling us that rock was the big thing, everyone's talking about the big thing, our band was the big thing. So he made us change our name to The Big Thing. Can you believe that?!
Terry Kath

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
Courtney Love

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

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.
William Shatner

I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it.
Courtney Love

When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.
Charlie Watts

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.
Daniel Johns

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
Manuel Puig

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
Courtney Love

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.
Lou Reed

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
George Herbert

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
Courtney Love

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