I Rock Quotes

#1. I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.

Mitch Albom

#2. I am almost always, when I'm at home in the evening after work, in a silk bathrobe I got from India. Like, I never take off this bathrobe. I have a series of Indian silk bathrobes that I love, and that's what I rock all the time.

Ivanka Trump

#3. I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

Kate Hudson

#4. I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything.

Kanye West

#5. I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.

Ansel Elgort

#6. I have a couple of basses in my office. And I try to be courteous of my co-workers, but sometimes I get carried away and I crank up my amp and I rock out. It's kind of my stress reliever.

Lester Holt

#7. You asked me earlier what it was like to come home," I say.
Haley nods. I lace our fingers together and raise them into the air. "I couldn't answer you because I didn't know, but now I do. This-" I rock out hands "-I finally found home.

Katie McGarry

#8. I am not afraid.
fuck safety.
i rock on purpose ALL THE TIME

Amanda Palmer

#9. I wouldn't give up being a Sentinel for the world. Or being the Apollyon. I rock."
"Wow. You're so humble.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.

Kid Rock

#11. To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

Vanilla Ice

#12. I'm all about flannels and layers, so that's pretty much what I rock.

Josh Hutcherson

#13. I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

Liz Phair

#14. I'm a physical guy. I play basketball, and I rock climb.

Ansel Elgort

#15. I rock in his arms under the stars and the blanket of night air, unwilling or unable to tear myself away.

Lisa Daily

#16. Sometimes you just have to be blunt and say, 'I rock.

Sylvia Day

#17. I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. That's why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that.

Big Sean

#18. Sexy, to me, is the way you carry what you have. I have a big nose, but I rock it.

Justin Timberlake

#19. Just because I rock doesn't mean I am made of stone.

Jim Carrey

#20. I rock because sometimes I'm scared and that's alright. I rock because I'm not afraid to cry. I rock because I'm loved and I'm able to love. I rock ... I rock.

Anika Noni Rose

#21. The more emotion I put in to it the harder I rock.

O.C.

#22. I rock, therefore I am.

Prince

#23. Used to rock a throwback ballin on the corner, now I rock tailored suit lookin' like a owner.

Jay-Z

#24. I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.

Kiefer Sutherland

#25. It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock climbing as a kid, when I was 16, and then I started teaching and a buddy of mine started taking me out.

Erik Weihenmayer

#26. 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach - Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side.

George Benson

#27. I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

Sean Lennon

#28. When I was younger I knew I could do anything - I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea - I'd rather be a rock star.

Kurt Cobain

#29. I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.

Kanye West

#30. What geomancy reads what the windblown sand writes on the desert rock? I read there that all things live by a generous power and dance to a mighty tune; or I read there all things are scattered and hurled, that our every arabesque and grand jete is a frantic variation on our one free fall.

Annie Dillard

#31. I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

Bubba Sparxxx

#32. I am very careful about what I eat, and I exercise pretty much every day, whether it be rock-climbing, running, Muay Thai, yoga, horse riding, stand-up paddleboarding, or plain and simple working out.

Sebastian Roche

#33. After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

Rick James

#34. I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star!

Tommy Hilfiger

#35. If anyone can be trusted, it's the Savior. He's always true, always faithful, loving, kind, right ... He never left me then, but stayed firm and strong, like a rock. I learned - even though it's tough sometimes - my Father knows best.

Ocieanna Fleiss

#36. I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting "Forward, brave comrades!" you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!

Terry Pratchett

#37. See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.

Evan Dando

#38. I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.

Cameron Crowe

#39. I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

Imelda May

#40. The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

Carrie Brownstein

#41. I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled ... a lot.

Stone Gossard

#42. Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world.

David Chang

#43. Blue and pink made mud, made dirt, made rock
I am mud, I am dirt, I am rock
I am nature, a force of nature
I am the color that remains
when everything else is washed away

Nina LaCour

#44. I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

Pete Townshend

#45. It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

Pete Townshend

#46. I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both.

Kristen Stewart

#47. 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

#48. I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

Hank Ballard

#49. If there is a Heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.

Doris Day

#50. Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.

Little Richard

#51. Just in case you're wondering, I have no desire to off myself. I do, however, have other desires. Shame I'm so weak right now. I have a feeling I could rock your world.

Lissa Jay

#52. Seriously, what is going to be awesome about touring with the mut of rock, who has hit on me every time I see him? Nothing - that's what.

Samantha Towle

#53. I had tried marijuana several times, but in the words of my friend and longtime assistant Janet Stark, When I smoke pot, it makes me want to hide under the bed with a box of graham crackers and not share.

Linda Ronstadt

#54. (I invented rock and roll. You wouldn't believe the things I've invented. Anal sex, obviously. Smoking. Astrology. Money ... Let's save time: Everything in the world that distracts you from thinking about God. Which ... pretty much ... is everything in the world, isn't it? Gosh.)

Glen Duncan

#55. Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock Factory. Tim and Todd run the northern plant in Cleveland, and I've got the southern plant down here in Dayton. No tours permitted.

Robert Pollard

#56. Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.

Mick Jagger

#57. I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.

Max Weinberg

#58. I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

Rachel Miner

#59. I want to make these films that I think other people would be scared to do. I don't think anyone can go off and make a rock opera. I think it's a very specific niche.

Darren Lynn Bousman

#60. I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

Melissa Etheridge

#61. I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

Paul Simon

#62. When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.

Art Garfunkel

#63. I think we should have a day off for Father's Day. Dads work very hard. And to be fair, a day off for Mums too, as they work hard. And more bank holidays. They rock.

Peter Andre

#64. I've always been so interested in the way the body feels when singing or being on stage, or being in the audience for that matter. It doesn't have to be the typical "rock" experience. It can be so much more.

Jenny Hval

#65. It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray that, or 'Climax,' for that matter. But for me, it was the most adventurous thing I could have done at that exact moment.

Ariel Rechtshaid

#66. I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.

Serj Tankian

#67. I'm spoiled - in all ways. I've been in a rock 'n' roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different.

Peter Noone

#68. Just give me more, better memories to replace the bad ones. I'll be back to normal before we know it.

A.R. Von

#69. I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B.

John Oates

#70. Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

Thomas Friedman

#71. I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

Conor Oberst

#72. The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those inspirational factors that drove rock'n'roll, gospel, and blues. I tend not to value a more pop aesthetic.

DJ Shadow

#73. I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried ... I am a rock.

Paul Simon

#74. I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

Bill Wyman

#75. I remembered I had tickets that Susan Blond gave me to the rock kid who ate the heads off bats, Ozzy Osbourne,...

Andy Warhol

#76. The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen.

David Livingstone

#77. But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

Little Richard

#78. I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?

Rachel Stevens

#79. I'm trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, 'I'm different. I'm not just a comedian.' I'm trying to become a rock star.

Kevin Hart

#80. I don't consider myself a rock star chef, I really don't. I cook for a living and I try to help out as many people as I can in my life and that's all I care about. I don't care about the fame of television, I use to a lot.

Robert Irvine

#81. I encourage you to find your punk-rock, your lucha-libre, your pro-wrestling

Amy Dumas

#82. Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

Fats Domino

#83. I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

Adam Lambert

#84. I never thought of myself as a rock singer. I was interested in songs like 'Heart Like a Wheel,' and I liked the others for about 15 minutes.

Linda Ronstadt

#85. Maybe one day I'll write my rock album so I can use more obscure references and just be weird. If the lyrics are too crazy, though, then it's not pop anymore.

Chaz Bundick

#86. I definitely make an effort to work on different styles of music: not working on too many post-rock bands, or too many heavy bands, or too many folk bands, or just whatever. I have no desire to be known as somebody that just works on a single style of music and would rather avoid it, actually.

John Congleton

#87. My big brother listened to classic rock, and I grew up listening to a classic rock station called KSHE.

Louise Post

#88. The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.

Katharine Graham

#89. I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

Frances McDormand

#90. No, no, no! I am not giving birth backstage at a rock concert. I need to be in a hospital, pumped full of every drug that they can legally give me!
I was so shocked, my only repsonse was,
'Well, he was conceived backstage at a concert, so it's sort of fitting for him to be born at one.

S.C. Stephens

#91. There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

Bono

#92. I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.

Chrissie Hynde

#93. I thought I heard the dark pounding its head
On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?

Allen Tate

#94. I don't know if rock is dying. I wouldn't want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.

Mick Jagger

#95. Served her right, he thought, riling him up the way she had. "Hurt your foot?"
The amused and satisfied tone didn't escape her notice. "I stepped on a rock while I was running
after this big, stupid culo."
"Which would be me.

Nora Roberts

#96. Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

Neil Young

#97. How do you know what a rock star feels like, Ada May? Have you ever been a rock star? I don't think so,' Beth Ann said.
'I was just guessing.'
'Well, not me. I'm not saying I feel like something when I don't have any idea what that feels like and neither do you.

Jodi Thomas

#98. How Sweet the name of Jesus ... the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace.

John Newton

#99. There was a period of time where I really hated rock music.

Scott Weiland

#100. The people who listened to rock 'n' roll, I thought, were bound together against the people who didn't listen to rock 'n' roll. That, of course, didn't work at all. Your taste in rock 'n' roll does not say anything about you, morally or otherwise.

Aleksandar Hemon