Chauncey Depew Quotes

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

Chauncey Depew

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• I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Rock
  • Name
  • Rock And Roll

• If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Character
  • Play
  • Rock

• I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Work
  • Taken

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• 'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.

  

  Caitlin Hale
  • School
  • Rock
  • Doctor

• Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Rock

• My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Different
  • Family
  • Beautiful

• I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Star

• I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Works
  • Ridiculous
  • Edge

• There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Music
  • Love
  • Soul

• I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Song
  • Day

• The Rock will always come back to us.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Rock
  • Always
  • Back

• Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Rock

• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Money
  • Best
  • Band

• Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Water
  • Band
  • Rock

• I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • You
  • Rock
  • Star

• All renewables, much as I love them, are diffuse. They all have a small power per unit area, and we have to live with that fact.

  

  David J. C. MacKay
  • Live
  • Power
  • Small

• It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • America
  • Crazy

• Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can’t teach old fleas new dogs.

  

  Federico Fellini

• When you're 20, you can't imagine being 30. When you're 30, you can't imagine being 40. When you're 40, you can't imagine being 100.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Imagine
  • 20
  • 30

• It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

  

  Chauncey Depew
  • Rock