Rock Musicians Quotes:

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

- Elvis Presley

topic: Music, Witty, Humorous, Notes Music, Spiritual Music

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

- Jimi Hendrix

topic: Life, Music, Beautiful, Jazz Musician, Speaking My Mind

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

- Jimi Hendrix

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Love Freedom, True Peace

Rock's always been the devil's music.

- David Bowie

topic: Rocks, Devil, Satanic, Satanism, Rock Musicians

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

- John Lennon

topic: Jesus, Rocks, Rock And Roll, Rock Musicians, Rock N Roll Music

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

- Frank Zappa

topic: Writing, Rocks, People, Writing Music, Colossal

You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.

- David Lee Roth

topic: Sex, Hippie, Rocks, Rock Musicians

Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.

- Ryan Adams

topic: Song, Writing, Thinking, Tripping, Rock Musicians

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

- James Daly

topic: Rocks, People, Musician, Rock Musicians

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Rocks, Musician, Rock Music, Rock Musicians

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.

- Robert Plant

topic: Rocks, Leaving, Musician, Another World, Rock Musicians

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

- Roger Daltrey

topic: Teenager, Rocks, Support, Rock Musicians

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

- Nick Cave

topic: Careers, Rocks, Needs, Rock Musicians, Short Lived

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

- Sean Lennon

topic: Growing Up, Rocks, Would Be, Rock Musicians

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

- Marc Bolan

topic: Rocks, Musician, Sound, Insensitive, Rock Musicians

There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.

- Noel Gallagher

topic: Song, Past, Rocks, Manure, Rock Musicians

There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

- Ian Anderson

topic: Taken, Rocks, Musician, Rock Musicians

Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ.

- Tim LaHaye

topic: Christian, Religious, Jesus, Irreverent, Rock Musicians

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.

- Steve Vai

topic: Successful, Rocks, Insane, Rock Musicians, Becoming Famous

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

- Wayne Coyne

source: "Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Talks ATP". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. August 27, 2009.

topic: Art, Thinking, Rocks, Rock Musicians

I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

- Hank Azaria

source: "The Hilarious Hank Azaria". Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

topic: Rocks, Magic, Special, Rock Musicians

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food

- Steve Albini

topic: Rocks, Cooking, Benefits, Fresh Food, Rock Musicians

I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

- Eric Avery

source: "Jane's addiction ex=bassist Eric Avery recovers with Solo Lp, calls Billy Morgan 'inspiring'" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. December 26, 2007.

topic: Rocks, Long, Guy, Rock Musicians

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

- Ken Hensley

topic: Rocks, Together, Musician, Rock Musicians

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

- Travis Barker

topic: Thinking, Rocks, People, Rock Musicians

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

- Trevor Horn

source: "Horn of plenty". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2004.

topic: Dad, Rocks, People, Electronic Music, Rock Musicians

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

- Geddy Lee

topic: Rocks, Musician, Rock Musicians, Hard Rock

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

- Bill Dixon

topic: Rocks, Musician, Levels, Notoriety, Popular Music

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

- Christopher Guest

topic: Jealous, Rocks, Self, Rock Musicians

I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music and was just trying to copy what I heard on the radio. And at a very early age I started experimenting with old tape recorders from my parents. I was 11 or 12 at that time and then when I was like 14 or 15 I had a punk band. I made all the classic rock musician's evolutions and then in the early nineties I bought my first sampler and that is how I got into electronic music, because I was able to produce it on my own. That was quite a relief.

- Christian Fennesz

topic: Rocks, Guitar, Years, Playing Guitar, Rock Musicians

I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.

- Glenn Branca

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Rocks, Desire, Musician, Experimental Music, Rock Musicians

I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

- Brendan Fraser

topic: Rocks, Musician, Rock Music, Rock Musicians