Great Rock Songs Quotes

#1. For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.

Venus Williams

#2. Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul ... it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

Noel Gallagher

#3. On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#4. Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.

Kirk Hammett

#5. For a nothing, Charlie Brown, you're really something!

Charles M. Schulz

#6. I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.

Dierks Bentley

#7. Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

Bonnie Raitt

#8. I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Pierre Corneille

#9. I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up.

Paul Begala

#10. I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

Albert Camus

#11. The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came from the fact that we had grown up before rock n' roll. We listened to all the great songwriters and big bands, songs with great lyrics and melodies. I think that really influenced everybody.

Frankie Valli

#12. I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it's rock n' roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song, and if it's a smash, then I'll love the different wordplay and different melodies. That's what I'm a fan of - great music.

Nayvadius Cash

#13. You only get back what you put in

Catherine Cox

#14. Our source is private."
"So are your parts but you can expose them".

Charles Bukowski

#15. I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

Kid Rock

#16. Cancer not only seeps into your body, it melts in your consciousness.

Adriana Locke

#17. Blessings are the spiritual equivalent of breathing in, and prayer is the spiritual equivalent of breathing out.

Thom Hartmann

#18. Democracy can tie your hands in a rock 'n' roll band, you know? It can be a great thing, but if you've got a certain amount of vision and you write a lot of songs, it's sometimes better to have your own band and make your own decisions.

Jason Isbell

#19. The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

Henry Rollins

#20. Girls are like exotic birds. They are pretty to look at but hard to catch.

Howie Dorough

#21. I asked Isabelle whether she was happy. "I never ask myself, so I suppose the answer is yes." At all events she likes the moment of waking up. That seems to me a pretty good definition of happiness! It is the same with me: every morning, when I open my eyes, I smile.

Simone De Beauvoir