Rock Song Quotes:

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

- Joe Elliott

source: "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard" by Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.

topic: Song, Rocks, Rock Song

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

- Paul McCartney

source: Song: Golden Slumbers

topic: Love, Life, Birthday, Rock Song, Time Love

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

- Neil Young

topic: Death, Running, Believe, Rock Song, Famous Last Words

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.

- John Lennon

source: "Song: 'Strawberry Fields Forever'". 1967.

topic: Eye, Work Out, Matter, Rock Song, Closed Eyes

Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.

- John Lennon

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Rock Song, Need Love

The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.

- David Lee Roth

topic: Song, Rocks, Guitar, Rock Song, Guitar Solos

Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.

- John Mellencamp

topic: Song, Heart, Rocks, Rock Song, Three Things

What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.

- Dave Grohl

source: Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

topic: Song, Rocks, Loud, Rock Song

I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

- Clancy Brown

source: "My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (song) (1978). The last sentence was quoted by singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain in his suicide note, 8 Apr. 1994. See Richard Cumberland 1

topic: Lovely, Burn Out, Rock Song, Burned Out, Fade Away

I've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you can do serious writing in a rock song if you can somehow do it without losing the beat,

- Lou Reed

topic: Song, Writing, Numbers, Rock Song

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

- Vanessa Carlton

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Song, Writing, Rocks, Rock Song

I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.

- Corey Taylor

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Song, Writing, Rocks, Rock Song, Acoustic Guitar

A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

- Kurt Cobain

topic: Self, Miserable, Highlander, Rock Song, Famous Last Words

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me,

- Frank Bruno

topic: Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me, Rock Song, Inspirational Baby, Mother And Daughter, Long Love

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

- Bruce Springsteen

topic: Song, Rocks, Variation, Rock Song

I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

- Al Yankovic

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Song, Teenager, Cutting, Rock Song, Accordions

Whether it be a reggae song, rock song, a love song, the main thing was just to, whatever I was feeling, to try to capture that emotion.

- Bruno Mars

topic: Song, Rocks, Feelings, Rock Song

I am a firm believer in playing the type of music that compliments the song the best. If it's a folk song make it sound like one. If it's a rock song make it sound like one, if it's a rap song take it off the record.

- William Clark Green

topic: Song, Rap, Rocks, Rock Song, Folk Songs

To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.

- PSY

topic: Song, Korea, Rocks, Rock Song, Funny Videos

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

- Don Dokken

source: Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 13, 2008.

topic: Song, Writing, Rocks, Rock Song

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

- Sheryl Crow

topic: Song, Rocks, Band, Rock Song

I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.

- Sara Bareilles

source: Source: www.thestarscoop.com

topic: Song, Rocks, Flip, Rock Song

I don't really listen to rock music anymore. But were I to write a song that sounded like it could be a rock song, I'd probably give it to the Pornographers, and I'd be excited to try to make it work.

- Dan Bejar

topic: Song, Writing, Rocks, Rock Song

Well, after Zombie Birdhouse came out, I toured behind it in the fall of 1982, into the spring, and in the summer in the Far East. At that time, I found my work self-referential; it was getting to be rock songs about a rock singer who lived a rock life on the rock road, and I was starting to wonder what I would be like to rent my own apartment, what it would be like to have a checkbook.

- Iggy Pop

source: "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

topic: Summer, Song, Spring, Rock Song

In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.

- Bryce Dessner

topic: Song, Emotional, Rocks, Rock Song, Folk Songs

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

- Paul McCartney

topic: Song, Rocks, Long, Rock Song

I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.

- Kid Rock

source: “Kid Rock: What I've Learned” by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. April 20, 2011.

topic: Country, Song, Night, Rock Song, Old Rock

If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.

- Tom Lehrer

topic: Song, Rap, Writing, Rock Song