Rock And Roll Star Quotes

#1. I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

Sam Shepard

#2. I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

Kurt Cobain

#3. IT'S A LITTLE HARD FOR ME TO STAND BEHIND THE WALLS OF THE GREAT MANSION AND PLAY ROCK AND ROLL STAR. I FEEL THE NEED TO GIVE BACK.

Jon Bon Jovi

#4. I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

Patti Smith

#5. I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

Dee Snider

#6. Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.

Rob Sheffield

#7. Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

George Harrison

#8. I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.

Dave Grohl

#9. I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.

Shelby Lynne

#10. No one wants to die or even plans to die, at least not when you are young and living life on top of everything, stepping on gold, running the miles with hot chicks on tow, but even if I wasn't a rock star, and just a normal civilian, I still wouldn't plan to die young. Death is so boring.

Sofea Shah

#11. I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home. So I thought maybe I'd be a rock 'n' roll singer or an opera singer.

Sandra Bernhard

#12. There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

Thom Yorke

#13. From the age of 14, 13, I guess I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. And that was it. I wanted to make a living playing rock 'n' roll, and it was a ridiculously impossible dream at that time. But it was kind of all I ever wanted to do. It's nice to do it.

Steven Van Zandt

#14. This is rock 'n' roll, Mags. It don't understand discreet. - Julian MacAvoy

Toni Kenyon

#15. He was a living, breathing fantasy. Her own rock and roll fantasy at that! And every minute of every day it was getting more and more difficult to ignore the attraction brewing between them.

Samantha Chase

#16. He recovered quickly, reaching out to touch a few outstretched hands, melting the front row of girls like one long stick of butter as he moved closer toward me.

Emme Rollins

#17. There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.

Tina Turner

#18. I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing ... We're f - -ing movie stars.

Dave Grohl

#19. I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.

Tim Vine

#20. At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.

Keith Moon

#21. Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

Joe Eszterhas

#22. Our eyes met and locked as the song came to a halt, followed by a screaming conclusion from the crowd, girls around us pressing me into the stage, forcing all the air out of my lungs, but I'd forgotten about doing anything so basic as breathing.

Emme Rollins

#23. I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

Joe Eszterhas

#24. I don't conduct myself like a rock 'n' roll star in my day-to-day living. Am I a celebrity? Yes. Do people recognize me on the street? Yes, they do. But at the same time, it's not a media center out here. People get used to you.

Dee Snider

#25. Does he know you're with me? Does he know about me? Does he know we fuck each other in our dreams every night?
~ Ripp Collins

Yvonne Nicolas

#26. Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

Trent Reznor

#27. The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

Elton John

#28. People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don't have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.

Lenny Kravitz

#29. Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We the real rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1 rock star on the planet.

Kanye West

#30. Because some things in life just hurt so much that you need to feel physical pain to start to heal from it.

Kristen Hope Mazzola

#31. All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?

Janis Joplin

#32. Jesus Christ was the original rock'n'roll star. He gave people reasons to live in the rut they were living in. He was the first man to say, "You don't have to have human sacrifices, 'cause human sacrifices hurt somebody, you know?" Just believe in the spirit that is within you.

Ozzy Osbourne