Rock Quotes
-
Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.
-
Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance!
-
I try to place beautiful imagery next to fucked up imagery, because that's how I view things … I sometimes feel that no one's taken the time to write about certain things in rock, that there's a certain female point of view that's never been given space.
-
Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can be really distinctive if you go for an earthy, rock-and-roll look like the Kings of Leon or the Killers.
-
Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper.
-
When I see 16 year-olds waiting for me, I just want to spank them and give them guitars and tell them to start bands. It's a bummer that girls have to respond to rock artists sexually instead of, like, 'wow, me too!'.
-
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.
-
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
-
Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
-
Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross and hatred is the ballast of the rock
-
I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.
-
Don't be a rock star. I've seen people around me have their lives destroyed by drugs. It just depends on what kind of person you are. Like, some people have a "go" button and a "stop" button, and some people just have the "go" button, meaning that they take drugs and just take more, and more, and more. It could be 6 in the morning and they'll say, "Okay, I have to get more now." I'm not that kind of person.
-
Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.
-
I grew up in Arkansas, and I went to Little Rock Central High, which was the site of a desegregation crisis in '57. I graduated in '97.
-
Anybody who has ever played in bars has played 'Keep Your Hands to Yourself.' It's a monumental piece of rock & roll. It makes you feel exactly like rock & roll is supposed to make you feel.
-
Rock guitar has been around for decades now, and there are so many strong traditions, and so much of it is just burned into my fingers. So, nine times out of 10, when I pick up the guitar to jam something, it sounds pretty cliche.
-
Vintage rock T-shirts are the best. I have about 50 or 60, most bought on eBay for a few pounds. You can always tell which ones are genuine because there'll be lots of pictures showing you the holes.
-
I listen to everything while I train. From old school reggae, to classical stuff like Bach, to hip-hop, to rock and roll.
-
I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?
-
The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But in the process of taking it out there, there has to be some times when they're not getting it right. It all depends on what you dig. I personally don't think the fusion of jazz with the heaviness of rock is working.
-
I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.
-
Used to rock a throwback ballin on the corner, now I rock tailored suit lookin' like a owner.
-
The 'rock world' is a lot smaller than it used to be. It's doing a lot less things than it used to be. From Woodstock back in the day and Rage Against the Machine, no one sells millions of records anymore.
-
I personally wouldn't want my second album to sound like my first; it might sound very rocky or hard rock - and that wouldn't be melancholy. So if people think my music is melancholic, then so be it. It's meant to be uplifting, and I'm just basically saying what needs to be said.
