Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was a 78 rpm of "Hound Dog" backed by "Don't Be Cruel" and when I listened to those tunes I felt about ten feet tall and I grinned so hard that I felt like the corners of my mouth would meet in the back and the tip of my head would simply topple off. All I know about Rock and Roll is that it makes people feel good. Elvis Presley more than made me feel good, he enriched my life and made it better.
Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.
I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.
Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world.
I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public.
Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.
You kind of have to be like " What have you been working the last five years for? Why are you complaining?" It's essentially me talking myself out of being a crybaby indie rock butthead.
What has Rock and Roll ever done for us? Everything.
That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.
I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it.
American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.
Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love.
Any live venue where there is alcohol served and it's past midnight there is gonna be fights. It doesn't matter if it's Hip-Hop, Rock or Jazz.
If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [ A Period of Transition ] is from the Daddy Cool school.
If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success.
Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.
Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.