Top 66 Rock Stars Quotes

Rock stars’ wives have never been given an easy time. They weren’t nice about Linda McCartney till she died.

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

I’ve interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I’ve had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success.

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

Most salespeople would like to think of themselves as being rock stars, but they don’t display the talent to match their definition.

The main thing to know about me is that I’m a champion of entrepreneurs and the startups they build. They are my rock stars. If in doubt, I side with them, and that’s clear from my writing.

I’ve always had the idea that multi-millionaire rock stars should work harder than anyone because they have the ability to do it. Look at an artist like Andy Warhol. He never stopped working, even after he didn’t need to work again.

I just love the way the ’60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies – and dressed their fantasies.

Once upon a time in America, people aspired to party like a rock star. Now, rock stars aspire to party like a football owner.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

There’s something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

More than accepted, it’s encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.

To me, the people on ‘Copper’ were rock stars. Before I joined that show, I loved that show.

I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You’re 20 years old and you’re hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!

America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.

Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.

I was never a singer; I can’t play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn’t have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.

There will always be rock stars, but I don’t know how much depth and longevity they’ll have.

We don’t swim for the attention. We don’t swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.

Kill Rock Stars has a willingness to really work with the artist and to be flexible with what they’re doing… part of being an independent artists means having your hands in the business all the time, so they bring in a lot of ideas about it.

James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn’t Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture’s deification of its idols.

There’s this misconception that comedy and music go together. They don’t. Comedians can’t compete with rock stars; they’re just not on the same level. Rock stars will always be cooler. They will always get more girls.

People had this idea about becoming rock stars packing stadiums instead of having the goal of becoming what musicians used to be in terms of how they would perform and connect people.

Like all teenagers in the early ’60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a guitar. We all thought we’d be rock stars. Then I got into comedy, but I’d always find a way to use my guitar, such as writing songs and doing musical parodies.

I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can’t see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

I just think that models and rock stars, and actors and actresses, all tend to flock to one another.

The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it’s not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn’t fit.

Rock and roll’s relatively new, in the sense of the Fifties, Sixties, right? They invented the first sort of rock stars, and they took it to excess, and then the excess became bitter, tormented. Then it became okay to succeed.

Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.

I was a very independent, successful girl. I made my own money, I bought my own airline tickets. When I got a paycheck, I went to Bergdorf and I bought my own clothes. There were no rock stars buying me my clothes.

Rock stars should be able to tune their own guitars, apply their own eyeliner, and pick out their own leather pants.

The rock star is dying. And it’s a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

I spent time at my grandfather Dino’s gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.

DJs are the new rock stars.

The dominant male is history. Could you see a male Lady Gaga? The closest we’ve got is Justin Bieber, who’d be locked up if he tried the stuff Gaga gets away with. Women are the only rock stars now. Adele is brutally honest. I want to be like her.

What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.

Musicians play music because you love… I loved to play drums since I was five. It’s all I ever wanted to do. Rock stars, or as we call them, posers, guys who want to just look great, dress great. They’re not musicians; they’re looking for the fame.

The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye’s stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That’s reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That’s reminiscent of the Beatles.

‘Silence Kid’ starts with a broken classic-rock intro. It’s funny to hear us do that. Obviously, we weren’t skillful rock stars. Then it’s spinning through a lot of hooks really fast, and all of a sudden, it’s over.

I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.

I just had the absolute best luck in the world in terms of meeting The Young Bucks, and they might look like wild little rock stars who are irresponsible, but they are business geniuses. They set up the deal with Hot Topic, and they’re going to be the first 7-figure downside characters that New Japan Pro Wrestling has.

Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.

It’s wild how chefs have become like rock stars.

Obviously I’ve had this fascination with aristocracy my whole life. Like, the kings and queens of 500 years ago… they’re like rock stars. If there was a ‘TMZ’ 500 years ago, it would be about, like, Henry VIII and Marie Antoinette and all those people.

A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a book by that 14-year-old gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, and I think, ‘Now, what’s she going to tell the world? And these 25-year-old rock stars, what are they going to tell the world?’

Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries – but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.

Rock stars wanted to date the models, the trendsetters, the tastemakers.

I loathe rock stars. I am a music nerd, a fan, a follower… just like any fan of music might be. And although I have blood-relatives, a lot of times I feel closer to my audience than my true family, because at least my fans get what I’m doing, to a certain extent, whereas my family does not.

I feel that all of us believe that we’re rock stars or actors deep down.

Fortunately, right now ‘entrepreneurship’ is one of the business world’s biggest buzz words and so many young people in our country are looking up to this new generation of CEO’s as their modern day rock stars. Whenever you have that effect, it makes the job of promoting entrepreneurship much easier.

The music became secondary to being rock stars.

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.