Rock Quotes

• When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

  

  Jacob Riis
  • Help
  • Rock

• I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Mind
  • Band
  • Successful

• There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Singing rock n' roll - they called it singing for the devil. But we all wanted an opportunity to compete in the music industry, and that was the opportunity.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • Music
  • Opportunity
  • Singing

• The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • Rock

• I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Different
  • Why
  • House

• It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Done

• Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

  

  William Broad Generation X
  • People
  • Art
  • Rock

• I'm still waiting for him to rock the white jacket with the rolled-up sleeves. I think it'll happen.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Up
  • Waiting
  • Jacket

• Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • America
  • Rock

• The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory.

  

  Brendan I. Koerner
  • Together
  • Earth
  • Distance

• I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!

  

  Jennifer Lawrence
  • Done
  • Running
  • Tree

• We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Men
  • Day
  • Beer

• I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • God
  • Faith
  • Environment

• I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Rock
  • Pop
  • Seventies

• Jim MacLaine was the hero of Ray Connolly's 1973 movie 'That'll Be the Day', about a young man turning his back on a university education at the turn of the '60s in order to try his hand in a rock n' roll band.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Movie
  • Education
  • Hand

• In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Control
  • Kid
  • Reached

• I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Guy

• It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).

  

  James Gleick
  • True
  • Free
  • Band

• Being in a rock n' roll and pop world, it's very easy to act like a kid.

  

  Joseph Mulrey McIntyre
  • World
  • Rock

• I'm interested in where I'm going and the people I am there to see. Going to Cuba was a great example of that, and the succession of going into Cuba, which is not a very easy place to get into, and playing music for people who have never seen a live rock concert outdoors like that.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I just did what I loved - flowers and rock n' roll. Pretty and punk. I was largely inspired by my dancing school classes and costumes.

  

  Betsey Johnson
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Inspired

• My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Rock

• I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.

  

  Gregg Allman
  • God
  • Soul
  • Song

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