My father has been a rock for me every since. — Andrew Sullivan

Geologists have a saying–rocks remember. — Neil Armstrong

I am the best rock drummer on the planet. — Ringo Starr

Sand is overrated. It’s just tiny little rocks. — Charlie Kaufman

Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem! — Lauryn Hill

To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal. — Vanilla Ice

I want people who are going to rock out for the duration. — Torae

Oxytocin rocks the world. — Robin Lim

Just because I rock doesn’t mean I am made of stone. — Jim Carrey

Everybody’s got a sack of rocks. — Elaine Stritch

I wish I had somebody to rock me to sleep. — Jill Sobule

With love, even The Rocks will open. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Djs are the new rock stars. — Tiesto

I have to make rock records occasionally. — Evan Dando

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived. — David Bowie

You don’t become a rock star for no reason. — Kim Kardashian

A film should be like a rock in the shoe. — Lars Von Trier

I don’t look like a model; I’m a rock writer. — Jancee Dunn

Writing is The Rock on which everything is built. — Dan Rather

I grew up in the south, poor–on rock, dirt roads. — Tina Turner

Rock & Rollers don’t dress for the weather. — David Johansen

Back in the day I used to drive with a rock just in case. — Gonjasufi

Build on The Rock before you hit rock bottom! — John Bytheway

The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing. — Keith Richards

If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who’ve come after ’65. — Robin Trower

This ain’t rock ‘n’ roll. This is genocide! — David Bowie

You have to be kind of sensitive to be in rock and roll. — Kemp Muhl

I know my ambitions are big, but you’ve got to have something after rock and roll. — Meredith Brooks

Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock ‘n’ Roll. — Miles Davis

The term ‘genius’ gets used far too loosely in rock & roll. — Jimmy Page

I’m fifty–six years old–I’m as old as rock ‘n roll. — Don Letts

I’m old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll. — Roger Glover

My encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll is a millstone around my neck. — Horace Panter

Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy. — Gary Cherone

Hip–hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu–Tang but Motorhead? — Mos Def

No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world. — Pete Townshend

Don’t Be Cruel is the greatest rock ‘n’ roll record ever made. — Jerry Lee Lewis

I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock ‘n’ roll. — Van Morrison

Punk [rock] seemed like rock ‘n’ roll music utterly without the music. — Steve Winwood

I don’t like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included. — Grace Slick

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll. — Henry Rollins

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high–energy music. — Patti Smith

The purpose of rock n’ roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you. — Richard Hell

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll. — Muddy Waters

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’. — John Lennon

I’m an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock’n’roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know. — Brian Johnson

I’m much more into bad, trashy Belgian techno. I like that much more than rock bands. The whole idea of a rock band is so archaic. — Luke Haines

I don’t know what it would be like to actually play guitar. I’ve toured with a lot of comedians and it’s never been like it is for a rock band. — Eugene Mirman

I had this one rock band I used to listen to, but I forgot the name of them. — Ace Hood

I’ve always just wanted to sing in a rock band. — Dee Dee Ramone

Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge–like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it. — Colin Stetson

Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else. — Walter Martin

I’m not going to say I’ll never rock with a band, because I’m too much of a fan of the aesthetic of a great band. But a girl group? Not again. — Dawn Angelique

It seemed like, in the early ’80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be. — Bucky Pope

Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down. — Henry Rollins

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It’s where they want to escape from that matters. — Colin Greenwood

I liked rock music going back to the ’60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music. — Glenn Branca

I feel like you’ve gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it’s 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you’re in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit. — Sandra Bernhard

It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life. — Al Yankovic

Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who’s proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team. — Gene Simmons

The sun’s down and the moon’s pretty–it’s time to ramble. — Elvis Presley

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away. — Elvis Presley

The next time you have a quarrel with me, I’d appreciate it if you could just talk to me first before resorting to pelting me with rocks. — Susan Ee

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.–Jean — Paul Sartre

The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all. — Robbie Robertson

I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That’s the way studios do it now. — Adam Shankman

It doesn’t matter to me where Barack Obama goes. If he wants to go to Hawaii because it’s his home state, fine! Hunky–dory. Plastic banana, good–time rock ‘n’ roller dittos. — Rush Limbaugh

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. — Sigmund Freud

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. — Henry Rollins

I don’t buy into the idea that you’re not supposed to rock & roll after a certain date. Maybe I should be in Bellevue, but I’m just having a good time. — Steven Tyler

I’m finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It’s been hard for me for a long time, but now I can’t listen to any new bands at all. — Matt Tong

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. — Klaus Nomi

A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thing is that it’s the first time that David Lee Roth has had any publicity in ten years. — Conan O

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity. — Martin Luther King

The idea of having an indie rock ‘career’ while living in a remote backwater like Seattle was too ridiculous to contemplate. It was simply about having adventures, one day at a time, one song at a time. — Bruce Pavitt

E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat–a–tat–tat a little deeper. — Ellen Goodman

We know what we are doing by now.We seem to make an album every 18 months or so and I think every band should do that. We’re not writing ‘Sgt. Pepper’ every time; we are writing straight ahead rock n’ roll. — Lemmy Kilmister

Everything is winged in this universe, even a rock! When the time comes, rock crumbles into tiny pieces and starts flying in the air! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks. — William Beebe

It’s time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, hypocrisy, and callous indifference to those in need. — Arianna Huffington

The stereotypical rock–star–trashing–a–hotel–room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it. — Phil Collins

Yeah, I love being famous. It’s almost like being white, y’know? — Chris Rock

You don’t love people at their best, sweetheart. You just love them because you can’t help it. — Amy Lane

Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best. — Melina Marchetta

Your kisses lift me higher…like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love. — Elvis Presley

I like African and avant–garde music, anything that’s vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it’s what I do. So anything outside of hard rock’s fine by me. — Roger Glover

This is still a young man’s game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock’n’roll. — Eddie Vedder

If you’re in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don’t like your music to begin with. — Mark Mothersbaugh

I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that’s why I’m trying to make a bridge between these two elements. — Klaus Nomi

This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre–WWI, then we were very much a reaction to the pomposity of rock that existed within music at that time. — Stephen Mallinder

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they’re reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night. — Van Morrison

When I’m 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music. — Chris Martin

There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you’re a country fan, you’re used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen. — Joe Perry

My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip–hop. It was just that hip–hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail. — Paul Banks

Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n’ roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time. — Lemmy Kilmister

I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don’t always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock. — Chamillionaire

I don’t listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I’ve always been influenced by folk music, I’m a big Bob Dylan fan. — Roger Glover

I have always loved rock music. But I have played country music since my senior year in high school. That’s where my heart is. I try to keep up with The Rock world as much as I can. — Tracy Byrd

Frank [Zappa]’s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won’t find elsewhere in rock and roll. — Gail Zappa

I’d studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello. — Tod Machover

Playing rock ‘n’ roll music, it’s going to be integrated, but being black you didn’t want to go into some neighborhood where you weren’t wanted. — Gail Ann Dorsey

I have so many songs, it’s ridiculous. I love so many different types of music and tend to write all over the map, style–wise. R&B, rock ‘n’ roll, screamers, pop, good–time songs. — Taryn Manning

There was a time in America not long ago when rock ‘n’ roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden. — David Bowie

My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage. — Al Kooper

My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school. — Miles Teller

Anyone who says rock ‘n’ roll is a passing fad or a flash–in–the–pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head. — Alan Freed

Now that the generation that grew up on ’80s indie–rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day. — Michael Azerrad