Rock Quotes

• A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

  

  John Millington Synge
  • Rock
  • Waves

• I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don't always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • Music
  • Rap
  • R&B

• I'm a singer-songwriter. So I play guitar, and I sing. Along the lines of, I guess you could call it, alternative rock.

  

  Brandon Jones
  • Rock

• You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.

  

  John Cho
  • Band
  • Star
  • Athlete

• Don't hide in the dark and let someone else make your boss look like a rock star.

  

  John Rampton
  • Dark
  • Star
  • Boss

• It made me feel cooler in real life to know I could be The Rock's daughter.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Life
  • Real
  • Daughter

• I've often thought that my background in rock 'n' roll has gone to waste in film work. My background was that I was a rock 'n' roll drummer and I don't think I used drums in my first ten years of film scoring.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Work
  • Rock

• I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • May
  • Die

• To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Freedom
  • Rock

• I don't think I'm your typical rock-hard ripped girl. But that's what I love and embrace about myself. I feel good, but I always feel like I can be better. That's what I thrive on.

  

  Jamie Anderson
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Rock

• I'm really focused and obsessed with writing things that are specific. I don't like big rock lyrics - I find them infuriating.

  

  James Murphy
  • Writing
  • Rock
  • Lyrics

• I like rock music that has melody, but it also makes you wanna get up and dance.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dance

• To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Moments
  • Rock
  • Tennis

• Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet.

  

  Jim Carroll
  • Up
  • Rock

• Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Good
  • Music
  • Country

• I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

  

  Liz Phair
  • People
  • Long
  • Live

• The Ramones couldn't play in my key. They couldn't switch keys, so Ed Stasium literally had to play all the instruments for my version of "Rock 'N' Roll High School," and I always thought that was so weird, because it's not the Ramones playing. It's the producer, who happened to just be a musician and could play everything.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • School
  • High
  • Weird

• We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

  

  Chuck Mangione
  • May
  • Rock

• You know, being in a rock band, you can't overdo the costume changes too much because everyone thinks, oh, that's not a real rock band. Look how many times he changes costumes. That's not rock. Rock's about going on in a T-shirt and staying in it and getting it all dirty. But that's not really my approach.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Real
  • Band
  • Changes

• Does that make you happy, Mr. Rock & Roll Fantasy? You know what? Eddie Vedder’s gonna live to be 98. How’s that make you feel, huh? I love you, come back. You come back! You love us. You love me, don’t you? You love Frances. Where are you? Are you happier now?

  

  Courtney Love
  • Live
  • Happy
  • Rock

• They're a different generation, those kids; kids that are under the age of twelve. They're not that impressed by rock music, you know what I mean? They're like, it's cool and everything, but whatever. They're just as impressed by YouTube.

  

  Frank Black
  • Music
  • Different
  • Kids

• The rock n' roll lifestyle did have its perks, but it wasn't all limos and parties in the early days.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Rock

• I feel proud to be a part of rock n' roll and the whole tradition of rock n' roll.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Proud
  • Rock

• I often joke that I've just become a professional schmoozer. Like, nobody cares how well I can rock climb anymore. It just has to do with how well I can schmooze.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Rock
  • Professional

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