The cutthroat avenues of rock ‘n’ roll, I am fed up with. I don’t want anything to do with it.

I get noticed for different things I’ve done in different areas of town. If I’m in a rock club, it’ll be Skid Row, if I’m in a mall it’s the ‘Gilmore Girls.’

And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption – to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro...

I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.

‘School of Rock’ was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I’d go an do the sequel if they asked me to.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me.

The Stones were always exemplary of one of the best of all rock qualities: tightness. They have always been economical, the opposite of ornamental. Having a very clear idea of what they wanted to say...

I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home – 22 years later I would shoot...

I don’t think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.

Kids like classic rock, and so do adults.

Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.

Popular culture – above all rock ‘n’ roll, with its African-American R & B roots – did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

We’re a rock group. we’re noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.

Man, you weigh a freaking ton,” he told me. “What’ve you been eating, rocks?” “Why, is your head missing some?” I croaked. His mouth almost quirked in a smile, and that’s when I knew how...

There’s no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn’t rock it.

He recovered quickly, reaching out to touch a few outstretched hands, melting the front row of girls like one long stick of butter as he moved closer toward me.

Who knows.

And I can do the rock clubs if I have to.

Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It’s full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide.

With ‘Elect the Dead,’ I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I’ve always wanted to make.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It’s either-or.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such...

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

On Jesus’ rock, my life abounds; all other floors are slippery grounds. His love for me, is mercy band; any other love is sinking sand.

The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?” (Hebrews 13:5–6)

If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and ‘Python’ achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans –...

There’s an edge to real rock ‘n’ roll. It’s all that matters.

America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.

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.

When you’re onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we’ve ever seen.