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I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so I also love rock. — Matt Schulze

We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was. — Slash

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel. — Buddy Holly

If music be the food of love, play on rock on . William Shakespeare

- love evolution — Michelle Mankin

Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers — Thom Yorke

Rock has always been THE DEVIL'S MUSIC ... I believe rock and roll is dangerous ... I feel we're only heralding SOMETHING EVEN DARKER THAN OURSELVES. — David Bowie

Popularity is like a girl in class that you can't ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more. — Brian Joyce

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores. — Larry Norman

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it. — Don DeLillo

I've always had a love of country music. — Kid Rock

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music. — Alvin Lee

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement. — Nick Rhodes

The bassist -- always the bassist. — Rob Sheffield

Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's. — Brian Joyce

Rock & roll is dying. It's frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now. — Kurt Cobain

'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music. — Bruno Mars

I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything. — Gustavo Santaolalla

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music. — Stanley Crouch

I like rock music that has melody, but it also makes you wanna get up and dance. — Albert Hammond Jr.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria. — Vance Packard

I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music! — Homer

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything — Bonnie Raitt

I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins. — William Shatner

In times such as these, life often begs us to seek answers when in reality there are only questions available. — Brian Joyce

In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't. — Kim Gordon

There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer. — Tom Petty

...there is a void in my guts which can only be filled by songs. — Jessica Hopper

I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest! — Fefe Dobson

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music. — Jason Aldean

It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now ... — Jerry Garcia

Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free. — Brian Joyce

I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool. — Claire LaZebnik

There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars. — Noel Gallagher

I'm definitely really into rock music, and I feel like that is where my heart is. — Avril Lavigne

Even more than music, rock-and-roll is sex. — A.D. Aliwat

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto. — Bono

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. — Frank Zappa

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan. — Dolly Parton

The bar was pulsating with rock music and packed with partiers, all set to leave their inhibitions, and their sobriety, behind. — Kenneth Eade

Punk is not just the sound, the music, punk is a lifestyle. — Green Day

Young people are experts on leisure, water skiing, dancing, rock music, rapping, TV watching ... by and large, chores are a thing of the past. — Billy Graham

All language is an aspiration to music. — Steve Almond

Every day I feel different about music, but what never changes is my love for it. — Kid Rock

Strange how potent cheap music is. — Noel Coward

No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock. — Dave Grohl

I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music. — Giorgio Moroder

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music. — Gary Cole

May the music rock and the guys be hot — Brenda Pandos

I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice. — Corin Tucker

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free, — Steve Albini

That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with. — Dave Matthes

I judge people based solely on the quality of bands on the black concert t-shirts they wear. — Lou Brutus

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all. — Carla Bley

Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing ... or producing. — Andrew Taylor

I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence. — Frederick Lenz

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance. — Bernice Johnson Reagon

Rock's always been the devil's music. — David Bowie

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it. — Trent Reznor

The U.S government hates rap music — Chris Rock

If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with. — Mark Mothersbaugh

Rock and roll is about having a good time, so no matter
where you are right now blast some music and forget
about lifes problems. — Andy Biersack

There was a period of time where I really hated rock music. — Scott Weiland

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is. — Lindsey Haun

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music. — Reggie Watts

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write. — Noel Gallagher

Anti-parent music seems to be all the pop-rock market wants. — Amity Shlaes

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile. — Don McLean

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong

It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve Allen Show that got me into rock music. — Elton John

I'm touched by rock n' roll. I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that. — Al Jarreau

We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing — Steven Tyler

The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody. — Brian Joyce

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is. — Julian Cope

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music. — Tony Blair

Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up! — Morrissey

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt. — Ann Demeulemeester

I don't think rock music has any positive function. — Charlton Heston

Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. — Yann Martel

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started. — John Oates

My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice. — Lucy Lawless

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification. — John Frusciante

Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding. — John Lennon

I don't think our music has much to do with math rock. — Ian Williams

I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock. — Greg Evigan

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing. — Britt Daniel

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much
music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts. — Perrey Reeves

Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted. — Gail Ann Dorsey

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me! — Little Richard

Luna Sea's music moves quickly but intelligibly, with a darkly frenetic, creative energy. — Josephine Yun

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music. — Carrie Brownstein

Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n' roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties. — Thomas Bangalter

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.' — Elvis Presley

Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard. — Alex Winston

Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off — Gerard Way

I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music though. — DJ Khaled

Classical music can rock you! — Ji-Hae Park

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. — Alice Cooper

Good rock music always tends to be around. — Dave Davies

Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo. — Kid Rock

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it. — Bono