Top 135 Rock Music Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Rock Music Quotes from famous people such as Bruce Dickinson, Compay Segundo, Lil Peep, Billy Squier, Gza, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Bruce Dickinson
Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe’s youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.
Compay Segundo
I grew up listening to a lot of emo music, a lot of rock music, a lot of rap music, a lot of trap music, funk, everything.
Lil Peep
My parents are proud of me now. However, when I first became involved with rock music, they were afraid.
Billy Squier
Hip-hop became the voice of rebellion and the youth, as rock music did in the ’60s.
Gza
I think it is safe to say, as a huge fan of music, that between 1967 and 1972 was the renaissance of rock music. That’s when all the forces combined together-the talent that was available and the freedom for the artists. The industry hadn’t become so gigantic.
Terence Trent D’Arby
I always wanted to make rock music as well or as an element of what I do.
Princess Nokia
I feel like Nashville has really embraced me with open arms. I was a little worried at first; you know, everybody knows about my immediate past, which is rock music. But everyone is coming to find out that I’ve been singing country music my whole life.
Cassadee Pope
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music – you can’t do that in jazz. You can’t do that with classical.
Serj Tankian
Willow and I definitely talked about doing a collaboration. She really loves rock music, so she wants to come on and get crazy with me on a track. Which I would love, because she has a fantastic voice.
Jada Pinkett Smith
My perfect day would start with a kiss from my daughter. I would drive her to school listening to our favourite punk rock music on loud in the car.
Bianca Balti
Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.
Justin Sane
Frankly speaking, I don’t know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
Ban Ki-moon
That’s what drew me to rock music in the first place – that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.
Stephan Jenkins
Sound should bring you in. We have people in all these specialized departments to make it one whole. They are supposed to work together to bring us into their world, not push us away. For example, rock music has to be loud, but it doesn’t have to be too loud.
Donna McKechnie
Folk music has been our popular music… There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that’s not true.
Shankar Mahadevan
Even though I’ve been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance – I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I’ve had little or no contact with its denizens.
William Boyd
That’s what rock music is, I think – constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.
Jonathan Jackson
I grew up in a religious family, and we weren’t allowed to listen to rock music.
Mike White
It’s what’s missing, I think, from most music – the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is part of great rock music or great literature or any great creative stuff.
Glenn Danzig
In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
Taylor Hawkins
So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music – maybe even toned down with an orchestra – you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that’s what I emphasize to the students.
Warren Jeffs
‘Next To Normal’ is rock music. It’s a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.
Alice Ripley
For fun, I love to play the drums… poorly. I have a band, a bunch of theater nerds – we got together, and we’re like, ‘Let’s play rock music for three hours and never take breaks.’ We call ourselves The U.S. Open.
William Jackson Harper
Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn’t know why.
Bruce Springsteen
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
Sting
They’re a different generation, those kids; kids that are under the age of twelve. They’re not that impressed by rock music, you know what I mean? They’re like, it’s cool and everything, but whatever. They’re just as impressed by YouTube.
Frank Black
Being a fan of pop music and rock bands, I am a reluctant convert into the art of instrumental rock music.
Paul Gilbert
I was only listening to rock music, burning joss sticks in my bedroom, wanting only to be a disc jockey, and watching six hours of television a night – the worst kind of teenage alienation.
Stephen Hough
You don’t see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It’s hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
Lance Reddick
What did happen to rock music? I think there was a hip-hop takeover.
Kyle Gass
There was a period of time where I really hated rock mu

There was a period of time where I really hated rock music.
Scott Weiland
When I was a very young kid, the first music that really turned me on was a new wave of British heavy metal – big, dumb rock music. There was a band called Diamond Head – they were basically the band that inspired Metallica. But I also liked bands like Saxon and Iron Maiden.
Steven Wilson
I’m not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
Manuel Puig
There’s just no great rock albums anymore. There’s a lot of rock music out there, but it’s very bland and disposable.
Marilyn Manson
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
Brian Eno
I think that brown people are attracted to rock music because it speaks on the spectrum of pain that brown people are predisposed to.
Princess Nokia
I like old-school, riff-driven, hard rock music with big hooks!
Jim Breuer
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
Tori Amos
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
Billie Joe Armstrong
I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.
Clarke Peters
My daughter wasn’t into that type of rock music and kind of played it off. But then these teenage boys started coming around, and Led Zeppelin, I don’t know, it became reinvented. Now she’s very proud of her grandfather.
Jason Bonham
The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?
Flume
I grew up with my parents always listening to rock music. My dad wanted me to play guitar, but I always had more of an ear for drums. He really wanted me to be a guitar player, like him.
Murda Beatz
I still believe guitars will be around as long as there’s rock music.
Mike McCready
In grade one and two, I was definitely into heavy metal and Satanic rock music, bands that had attributes that were quote-unquote ‘Satanic,’ even things like the Rolling Stones with ‘Their Satanic Majesties Request’ and ‘Sympathy for the Devil,’ but also like Motley Crue and Kiss and Alice Cooper.
Tobias Forge
There’s such an energy and emotion to rock music, which is a lot of the reason I go back to ’60s and ’70s bands and look at some of the fire they had.
Jim Root
As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn’t like it. It wasn’t cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock music. I didn’t have any interest in piano. I did it for three years, and because of piano, I learned percussion. I learned scales. I learned how to sing. Piano gives you all of the basics of those things.
Matt Skiba
I grew up listening to the alternative rock music from the ’90s. Some of my favorite bands included Dinosaur Jr, Guided By Voices, and Cobra Verde.
Seph Lawless
I was just stunned when I came to America. I didn’t know anything about rock music or football, and I felt very out of it… America was like a foreign country to me at first.
Thelma Schoonmaker
Funny songs aren’t usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it’s kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.
Win Butler
If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable.
Bryce Dessner
The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things… Anything outside that, they just don’t know what to do with it.
Don Bluth
I’m not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It’s a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I’m not going to judge.
Frank Black
I like hip-hop and rock music.
Giannis Antetokounmpo
I love dogs. I think dogs are way smarter. Maybe I can be the dog spokesman for the rock world. There are a lot of cat people making rock music.
King Tuff
I always like balance. If I’m playing rock music all the time, chances are I’ll start craving some lighter, poppier stuff, both to listen to and to play. I compare music to massage. If someone’s been working on your back for a long time, you really want them to move down to your legs or something.
Rivers Cuomo
Fan reaction is so out-sized and hyperbolic in rock music compared to other arts.
David Berman
There is no singular ‘reason’ why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain.
Ron Eglash