Quotes on Rock Music

Soft rock music isn't rock, and it ain't music. It's just soft. Reminds me of something my third-grade teacher said to us. She said, "You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala."

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

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades

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

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

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

Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That's what rock and roll is about.

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.