1.
If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are.
Lemmy Kilmister
If you believe you are too senior to rock 'n roll, then your opinion is erroneous.
2.
The only negative thing about murder is that when you kills someone they can no longer suffer
Varg Vikernes
The only downside to homicide is that after you eliminate someone, they can no longer experience distress.
3.
Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
Axl Rose
Life can be bittersweet.
4.
I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer.
Axl Rose
'If I had divine powers, ¾ of the population would be female, while the remainder would consist of pizza and beer.'
5.
Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.
Thelonious Monk
6.
My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
Eric Clapton
7.
One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue.
James Hetfield
9.
I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.
Keith Moon
10.
It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.
Freddie Mercury
13.
From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them.
Wolfman Jack
14.
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
Van Morrison
15.
I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!
Little Richard
16.
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
Keith Richards
17.
I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?
Chris Isaak
18.
The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.
Luther Allison
19.
We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.
David Lee Roth
20.
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
Johnny Depp
21.
Music is the soundtrack of your life.
Dick Clark
22.
I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll
Johnny Winter
23.
My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
Boz Scaggs
24.
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
Phil Knight
25.
Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.
Joey Ramone
26.
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
Bruce Springsteen
27.
Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
Bruce Dickinson
28.
In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'
Joan Jett
29.
When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.
Angus Young
30.
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
31.
If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.
Bruce Dickinson
34.
No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll
Brian Cox
36.
Heavy metal drives me bonkers, it makes me want to vomit, heavy metal really is a pile of puke.
Ian Gillan
37.
Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.
Lester Bangs
38.
The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.
Iggy Pop
39.
Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.
Gregg Allman
40.
If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock 'n' roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.
Buddy Holly
41.
I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'
Janelle Monae
42.
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
Dave Grohl
43.
Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.
Ronnie James Dio
44.
The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.
David Bowie
45.
If you're a gay person I'd rather not be stuck in a lift with you.
Kerry King
46.
The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
Fiona Apple
48.
Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?
Bon Scott
49.
I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
Dan Fogelberg
50.
I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.
Johnny Cash