Debbie Harry Quotes

That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

Debbie Harry Blondie

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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

• The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Being
  • Glamour
  • Forbidden

• 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

• 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

• And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic

  

  Van Morrison
  • Soul
  • Want
  • Rock

• I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just doesn't fit.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Thinking
  • Rock
  • Talking

• The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• Always help those who are being persecuted.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Help

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

  

  Jack Roy
  • Wife
  • Sex
  • Years

• Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?

  

  Abram Joseph Ryan
  • Blood
  • Land
  • Heroes

• Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants and needs, nature plays out its grand acts on scales of space and time that are truly hard to grasp. Perhaps all we can look to for real solace is our endless capacity to ask questions and seek answers about the place we find ourselves in.

  

  Caleb Scharf
  • Real
  • Existence
  • Answers

• That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Rocks
  • Forbidden