Rock Song Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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