Hard Rock Quotes:

Success isn't always about 'greatness'. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come.

- Dwayne Johnson

source: Twitter post from Jun 8, 2012

topic: Inspirational, Hard Work, Greatness, Motivational Workout, Good Workout

Don't be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.

- Dwayne Johnson

source: Twitter post from Mar 30, 2013

topic: Motivational, Dream, Hard Work, Ambitious Goals, Hard Rock

There is no substitute for hard work.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Morning, Motivation, Hard Work, May Day, Inspirational Hard Work

I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.

- Dwayne Johnson

topic: Motivational, Hard Times, Past, Going Through Hard Times, Hard Rock

I understand how hard rock fans feel inside out, because I was one of those people.

- Charlie Simpson

source: "Busted? It was like torture". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2006.

topic: Rocks, People, Fans, Hard Rock

Love is a hard rock between two people and can't be torn apart

- Lillian Gish

topic: Valentines Day, Flower, Love Is, Torn Apart, Hard Rock

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music

- Joan Jett

topic: Thinking, Rocks, Play, Hard Rock

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

- Ovid

topic: Motivational, Rocks, Water, Hard Rock

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

- Ozzy Osbourne

topic: Mean, Rocks, Stuff, Hard Rock, Heavy Music

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

- Geddy Lee

topic: Rocks, Musician, Rock Musicians, Hard Rock

I listen to tons of hard rock and metal, like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, etc., but I also listen to Beethoven and Mozart, to Discharge and the Bad Brains, and to Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington. So I think there's merit to both the melodic punk and to the hardcore stuff too.

- Dave Smalley

source: Source: www.pmakid.com

topic: Thinking, Rocks, Iron, Iron Maiden, Hard Rock

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

- Plutarch

topic: Determination, Rocks, Water, Brighten Your Day, Hard Rock

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

- Ann Wilson

topic: Heart, Rocks, Band, Rock Bands, Hard Rock

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

- Ritchie Blackmore

topic: Rocks, Play, Renaissance, Hard Rock

Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock 'n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented.

- Alice Cooper

source: "Q&A: Alice Cooper on His "Dead, Drunk Friends". Interview with Hilary Hughes, www.esquire.com. July 23, 2013.

topic: Rocks, Radio, Rock N Roll, Hard Rock

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

- Ritchie Blackmore

topic: Rock And Roll, Play, Rocks, Hard Rock

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.

- Roger Glover

topic: Rocks, Bob, Fans, Hard Rock

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

- Art Alexakis

topic: Rocks, Stories, Band, Rock Bands, Hard Rock

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.383, Book House

topic: Book, Heart, Autumn, Hard Rock

Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.

- Lauryn Hill

source: Song: DOO WOP THAT THING Album 'The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hi, Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

topic: Rap, Rocks, Hip Hop, Gems, Hard Rock

I don't know a lot of guys who started out as a hard rock and roller with a white stripe in their hair. Suddenly I do a TV movie and I wake up the next day and I'm a teen idol, like I'd laid on a beach in California all my life waiting for that to happen.

- Rex Smith

topic: Beach, Hair, Rocks, White Stripes, Hard Rock

Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.

- David Coverdale

topic: America, Rocks, Media, Hard Rock

In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didnt get to when I was younger.

- Rick Rubin

source: Interview with Anthony Kiedis, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 29, 2010.

topic: Rocks, Black, Zeppelins, Black Sabbath, Hard Rock

It's the principle of it, I get a rush when I bust Some dope lines oral, that maybe somebody'll quote. That's what I consider real in this field of music, Instead of puttin' brain cells to work, they abuse it. Non-conceptual, non-exceptional, Everybody's either crime-related or sexual. For those who pose lyrical, but really ain't true, I feel: Their time's limited, hard rocks too.

- O.C.

topic: Real, Rap, Dope, Hard Rock

I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

topic: Gun, Rocks, Doors, Loud Music, Guns N Roses

Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

- Eddie Trunk

topic: Kissing, Rocks, Iron, Iron Maiden, Slayer

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

Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.

- Horace

topic: Powerful, Blow, Rocks, Hard Rock

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and rather than just doing one thing when I make an album, the challenge to myself is to write all these diverse tracks, but to make them work. It's like a jigsaw because if you've got a lyrical track going into a hard rock track... it's got to work. You've got to write things that will work together.

- Jack Bruce

topic: Writing, Rocks, Track, Jigsaw, Different Kinds Of Music

The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can hook a lyric up and a feeling up to something and make the lyric jump into this machine that crushes. That has always been really attractive to me, that kind of power.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Crush, Rocks, Feelings, Hard Rock

The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.

- Jon Landau

topic: Rocks, Depth, Rolling, Rawness, Hard Rock

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

topic: Ignorance, Rocks, Enlightened, Hard Rock

Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it was done well. So energetically, again I felt like it was in line with punk rock and maybe hard rock, more than it was in line with R&B, which I never really liked.

- Rick Rubin

source: Source: www.wbur.org

topic: Rocks, Hip Hop, Hips, Hard Rock

Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.

- Ian Astbury

topic: Artist, Rocks, West, Hard Rock

With the first kid, you micromanage it, making sure there's no hair out of place when it goes off to school. But by the third kid, it's more like, "Oh, you want to wear a splatter-painted, Hard Rock Café T-shirt for seven days in a row and not brush your hair? Go for it. Be who you want to be."

- Annie E. Clark

topic: School, Kids, Hair, Hard Rock

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

- Roger Glover

topic: Rocks, Interesting, Bored, Hard Rock

McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as matériel, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology. Its symbols are Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Cadillac motorcars hoisted from the roadways, where they once represented a mode of transportation, to the marquees of global market cafés like Harley-Davidson's and the Hard Rock where they become icons of lifestyle.

- Benjamin Barber

topic: Icons, Rocks, Style, Harley, Marquee

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

- Art Alexakis

source: "Clearly A Success / Art Alexakis isn't typical flighty rock star". Interview with James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. November 23, 1997.

topic: Rocks, People, Singers, Either Or, Hard Rock

There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the elitist coffeehouse culture in SoHo. It' s rock 'n' roll music for kids across the land, and I think that makes it much more subversive in a way, in that it has the form and the function of a powerful, populist music, but it can carry very incendiary messages.

- Tom Morello

topic: Powerful, Kids, Thinking, Soho, Rock N Roll Music

The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life.

- Ruben Dario

source: Rubén Darío (2010). “Selected Poems of Rubén Darío”, p.90, University of Texas Press

topic: Pain, Rocks, Tree, Hard Rock

The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.

- Izzy Stradlin

topic: Real, Rocks, Important, Hard Rock

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

source: Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

topic: Running, Sex, Rocks, Action Films, Animated Films

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

- Harry Reid

source: Democratic response to the State of the Union address, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2005.

topic: Mom, Strong, Dad, Strong Values, Nevada

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

- Frances McDormand

topic: Rocks, Classic, Classic Rock, Hard Rock

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Food, Humble, Rocks, Kitchen Confidential, Stew

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know?And it was such a turn around, I guess it caught people by surprise.

- Karen Carpenter

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

topic: Rocks, People, Surprise, Hard Rock

I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

- Gary Cherone

topic: Rocks, Years, Band, Rock Bands, Hard Rock

Mister, I don't want no trouble. I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I don't even know what gingham is, but she goes through about ten rolls a week of that stuff. I ain't looking for no trouble, Mister.

- Bill Hicks

topic: Kids, Rocks, Wife, Hard Rock

Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.

- Adam Rich

topic: Thinking, Names, Rocks, Selflessness, Rock Bands