The best Rock song quotes?

Question

I like need an amazing song quote, not too long please. I love the who, aerosmith, pink floyd, joe walsh, steve miller, tom petty, you know..all the good ones! :) What are some great song quotes?

Answer 1

Mirrors on the ceiling,

The pink champagne on ice

And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'

And in the master's chambers,

They gathered for the feast

They stab it with their steely knives,

But they just can't kill the beast

------Eagles

Another good one:

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. - The Beatles, The End

Answer 2

Steely Dan

Any major dude with half a heart surely will tell you my friend

Any minor world that breaks apart falls together again

Bruce Springsteen

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night

You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright

Oh and that's alright with me

Bob Dylan

Now, there's a woman on my block,

She just sit there facin' the hill.

She say who gonna take away his license to kill?

Answer 3

"Drinking booze and raising rifles helps me through and through"- BLS

Answer 4

"let there be rock" -acdc

Answer 5

I don't guess Elvis Costello's "God's Comic" really qualifies as "rock", but the opening line is one of the best I know.

"I wish you'd known me when I was alive. I was a funny fella."

Answer 6

No one knows what it's like, To be the bad man

To be the sad man, Behind blue eyes

No one knows what it's like , To be hated

To be fated, To telling only lies

But my dreams , They aren't as empty

As my conscience seems to be, I have hours, only lonely

My love is vengeance, That's never free.....

Beautiful song, awesome lyrics..... gets me everytime! : )

Answer 7

"The question to everyones answer

is usually asked from within,

but the patterns of the rain

and the truth they contain

have written my life on your skin"

(Jungle Love - Steve Miller Band)

"You treat me like I was your ocean;

you swim in my blood when it's warm".

(Jungle Love - Steve Miller Band)

"And as we wind on down the road...

our shadows taller than our souls..."

(Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin)

"Many times I've lied, and many times I've listened.

Many times I've wondered how much there is to know"

(Over the Hills and Far Away - Led Zeppelin)

"I can't explain. You would not understand.

This is not who I am...

I have become comfortably numb"

(Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd)

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl

year after year...

Running over the same old ground,

what have we found?

The same old fears.

I wish you were here."

(Wish you were here - Pink Floyd)

"Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks.

Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked.

Sundowns are golden, then fade away.

And if I never do nothin', I'll get you back someday"

(Walls - Tom Petty)

"In the midnight hour, she cried 'More, more, more'.

With a rebel yell, she cried 'more, more, more'..."

(Rebel Yell - Billy Idol)

"I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings.

Coming down is the hardest thing"

(Learning to Fly - Tom Petty)

"Were you born to resist or be abused"

(Best of You - Foo Fighters)

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end..."

(Closing Time - Semisonic)

"Pink - you could be my flamingo,

cause pink is a new kind of lingo.

Pink, like a deco-umbrella...

it's kink, but you don't ever tell her..."

(Pink - Aerosmith)

"Letters I've written, never meaning to send..."

(Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues)

"...cause maybe...you're gonna be the one that saves me.

And after all, you're my wonderwall"

(Wonderwall - Oasis)

"Cause all of the stars are fading away

Try not to worry - you'll see them someday

Take what you need and be on your way

and stop crying your heart out"

(Stop Crying your Heart Out - Oasis)

"Like autumn leaves, his sense fell from him.

An empty glass of himself shattered somewhere within.

His thoughts like a hundred moths,

trapped in a lampshade...somewhere within.

Their wings banging and burning, on through endless night.

Forever awake he lies shaking and stirring,

praying for someone to turn off the light"

(Born of a Broken Man - Rage Against the Machine)

"They try to escape across the street where

Jesus stripped bare...

...and raped the spirit he was supposed to nurture.

In the name of my..."

(Born of a Broken Man - Rage Against the Machine)

"I am smelling like a rose that somebody left me

on my birthday deathbed.

I am smelling like a rose that somebody left me

'cause I'm dead and bloated"

(Dead and Bloated - Stone Temple Pilots)

"I know you want what's on my mind"

(s*x Type Thing - Stone Temple Pilots)

"The clothes she wears misfit

and she's nervous when she speaks.

Her zombie mom and dad live in a seperate house of freaks.

I woke you up and I slit the throat of your confidence...

and we laughed in the night

and I felt alright.

...thanks a lot..."

(Thanks a Lot - Third Eye Blind)

"Pour my life into a paper cup -

the ashtray's full and I'm spilling my guts"

(Otherside - Red Hot Chili Peppers)

"I couldn't love you more, you've got a beautiful taste.

Don't let the days go by...glycerine"

(Glycerine - Bush)

"I put my faith in the people, but the people let me down.

So I turn the other way and I carry on anyhow...

I just want to celebrate another day of living.

I just want to celebrate another day of life..."

(I Just Want to Celebrate - Grass Roots)

"Did you have any bad dreams

did you break any glass?

Would you be my companion -

is there even a chance?"

(Down for the last time - Head East)

"I wonder if they still recall my name"

(Ticket Back to Georgia - Head East)

"You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.

Once the flames begin to catch, the wind will take it higher"

(Biko - Peter Gabriel)

"I've been afraid of changin' cause I

built my life around you.

But time makes you bolder -

children get older.

I'm getting older, too."

(Landslide - Fleetwood Mac)

"Can I sail through the changing ocean tides?

Can I handle the seasons of my life?

I don't know."

(Landslide - Fleetwood Mac)

"Is it over now? Do you know how

to pick up the pieces and go home?"

(Gold Dust Woman - Fleetwood Mac)

"Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage"

(Bullet with Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins)

"So far, I still know who you are...

...but now, I wonder who I was"

(Perfect - Smashing Pumpkins)

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*laughs* Sorry it's such a long entry...I'm a music geek *grins*

I left out Rush, as much as I love them...left out a lot of the more poetic lyrics (Rush, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel) because amazing quotes from them are plentiful - I figured you are looking for the "diamonds in the rough", so to speak, in other bands.

This is only very lightly scratching the surface. And, of course, when I was doublechecking a quote for accuracy, I came across this little gem of a site:

http://rockwisdom.com/

Copying and pasting would have been so much easier than remembering and typing it out...oi! Oh well, it's a blast.

Hope it helps!

Answer 8

Gotta be "Born To Be Wild"

Answer 9

All lies and jest, still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. - Simon and Garfunkel, The Boxer

Answer 10

We all know success when we all find our own dreams.

- The Who, Pure and Easy

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high, you'd laugh and say nothing's that simple. But you've been told many times before, messiahs pointed to the door and no one had the guts to leave the temple.

- The Who, I'm Free

Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.

- The Eagles, Hotel California

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

- The Beatles, The End

All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

- Pink Floyd, Breathe

I think like 8 people used that Floyd quote in my hs yearbook.

Answer 11

Then you wind up with your face in a ditch

´Cause love is like a warm gun

On a cold night...yeah

Ain´t that a b*tch,

They paved paradise and put in a parking lot.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

She's a maneater.

Answer 12

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints / the sinners are much more fun"

-Billy Joel, "Only the Good Die Young"

I'm not sure if it's rock persay, but it's really brilliant I think.