1.
This is Manchester, we do things differently here.
Tony Wilson
2.
Love can make you do things that you never thought possible
Phil Collins
3.
I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.
Audrina Patridge
4.
Good rock music always tends to be around.
Dave Davies
5.
Rock music will never die. We all know that.
M. Shadows
6.
Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.
John Frusciante
7.
I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain preference too, be honest.
Tommy Wiseau
8.
I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.
David Bowie
9.
Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.
Zubin Mehta
12.
I'm definitely really into rock music, and I feel like that is where my heart is.
Avril Lavigne
13.
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
Sting
14.
There's more to life than listening to rock music.
Black Francis
15.
Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me over.
Alex Lifeson
16.
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.
Serj Tankian
17.
That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.
Billie Joe Armstrong
18.
I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
Carla Bruni
19.
The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.
Juliana Hatfield
20.
There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.
Marilyn Manson
21.
If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock music, and we were a part of that.
Stephen Mallinder
22.
Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.
Julianne Hough
23.
I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.
Brendan Fraser
25.
If you're going for things that are really terrible ideas you have to really have all your faculties about you to get away with them without being crucified. The best rock music gets away with something, somehow, that it shouldn't be allowed to get away with.
Will Sheff
26.
I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.
Mike White
27.
I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].
Bruce Springsteen
29.
I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary.
Michael Gira
31.
In Germany there's something about rock music much more political than it really is - like everything you were doing was an indictment of the American culture. I read an interview with one of the members of Sebadoh. He was saying he had just got back from touring Germany for the first time in five years or whatever, and one of the interviewers asked him, "Why aren't you still relevant?"
John Flansburgh
33.
Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.
Paul Morley
34.
Commercial record has never interested me. It's amazing I was in a band like The Police that had such phenomenal commercial success. Part of what made The Police what it was was that we didn't all come in with obvious mainstream musical tastes. We were a rock band and somehow we had to make rock music, but it was informed by a lot of things outside of the mainstream for sure.
Andy Summers