Advice to rock gods: drugwise, stick to Ibuprofen, decaf lattes, and pale Pilsners. . . If your stomach is not a flat slab, please leave your shirt on while performing. . . If your girlfriend asks you to choose between her and your music, sell your instruments immediately - especially if you're a drummer. . . Finally, go easy on the supermodels, don't forget to tune, and remember: a tiny bit of dry ice and lasers goes a long way. Ditto with tattoos.
People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.
God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.
The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall - it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to.
Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.
I'm not a rock and roller, a hitmaker. I'm highly dependent on what's coming out of these vocal cords.
I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.
(On being asked if he preferred to be a rock god or sex god) I am neither. My favourite role is father.
Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can really hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan.
I have friends from rock stars to Rastas; I don't even know what an unexpected friend is.
30 Rock is probably one of my favorite shows. It's just joke after joke after joke.
I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards. A lot of guys go into rock and then get sick of it and then go into something else. I came the other way, so I've always just had a lot more stuff lying around.
Rock and roll is my religion.
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.
If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.
(Rush are) like the JD Salinger of Canadian Prog Rock
Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go green
Where would rock and roll be without feedback?