Nick Carter (Nickolas Gene Carter) Quotes

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

Nick Carter

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• 'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.

  

  Halsey
  • Sound
  • Rocks
  • Landscape

• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Rocks

• If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Song
  • Bed
  • Rocks

• I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • House
  • Bike
  • Rocks

• It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Easier
  • Rocks
  • Throw

• Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Money
  • Springsteen
  • Bodyguards

• It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Quality
  • Rock

• My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Song
  • Giving

• ...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • World
  • Feeling

• Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

  

  Fabien Cousteau
  • Black
  • Water
  • Sea

• Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

  

  Banksy
  • Giving
  • Space
  • Rock

• O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

  

  Anne Boleyn
  • Death
  • Rest
  • Rock

• When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like the Rock of Gibraltar - steadfast and immovable; men without it are like the shifting sands on the Sahara Desert - tossed to and fro by every variant wind of life.

  

  Tad R. Callister
  • Life
  • Men
  • Rock

• What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Music
  • American
  • Soul

• What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful?

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Party
  • Rock
  • Star

• Used to rock a throwback ballin on the corner, now I rock tailored suit lookin' like a owner.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Rock
  • Rocks
  • Suits

• We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Time
  • May
  • Play

• Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Career
  • Taken

• I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I actually recommend as little actual counting as possible in a life partnership. But, when there's a sense of injustice brewing between you, some counting is inevitable, and so my advice is to count using as broad a scope as possible. It's not just hours worked or chores done, either, and it's not even just about the household - it's a system of Whole Marriage Thinking. It's about hours worked, chores done, goals supported, emotional needs met, everything. What it all takes out of you, what it all gives back. It all factors in.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Thinking
  • Emotional
  • Goal

• Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • True
  • Gay
  • Color

• My wife and I have Olympic sex. Once every four years.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Wife
  • Sex
  • Years

• I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.

  

  April Winchell
  • Sleep
  • Nights
  • Migraine

• I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

  

  Nick Carter
  • Rocks
  • Springsteen