Chris Rock Quotes

I love to play gigs.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.

I've watched so-called 'New Order' playing in Auckland, and Tom Chapman is miming along to my bass on tape... He's got his fingers on the low, and you can hear my high bass in the background. So he's miming.

I enjoy singing with a band playing behind me.

Really, if you've got people who want you to play, you play.

There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit of the musicians or the audience, the only classes of people I care about.

I'm very eclectic in what I like and what I listen to. But my favorite musical ever is "The Sound of Music." That was actually one that inspired me to sing.

I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.

The biggest change is I get to play my music for the people.

Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section.And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He plays the whole show with 40 members.

The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.

Honestly, musicals? I just can't. What if this was real life and I was just walking down the street on Rodeo Drive and all of a sudden I just burst into song about how much I love shoes?

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.

Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.

One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people are going to pay attention to it just because they've made it.

What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people.

People wrestle alligators but not once has someone done it without an audience.

While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.

It's always been my dream to be on the stage with my band, singing my music. That's always been, and always will be.

Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they've studied the tapes of the old films. We didn't have that. We thought once we had made it, even on film, it was gone except for the archives.

There are so many weird people that nobody takes any notice. We all just fit right in.