Rock Quotes
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My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.
Drake Bell -
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa
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(Man, I wish life had emoticons, you know? So that when your dad pisses you off you could like click a mental button or something and just show him one of those rolleyes. That would rock) Anyway.
Barry Lyga -
When rock roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.
Paul Stanley Kiss -
It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.
Jose Gonzalez -
There's a whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl.
Kate Pierson -
Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion -
The music became secondary to being rock stars.
Butch Trucks
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We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock.
David R. Brower -
I build on Christ, the rock of ages; on his sure mercies described in his word, and on his promises, all which I know are yea and amen.
John Wesley -
When I was a younger man,Got lucky with a rock 'n' roll band,Struck gold in Hollywood,All the time I knew I wouldGet back to the country,Back where it all began.Get back to the country,Back in the barn again.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.
Van Morrison -
I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.
Aleksis Kivi
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I've always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.
Charles Soule -
I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.
Clarence Clemons -
I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.
Roger Daltrey The Who -
I feel like I'm a rock artist. I don't feel like I'm a pop artist. And I'm alt rock. I'm indie rock. I'm punk rock. Because it comes from the pots and pans. It's a lot of me, but I've got multiple personalities.
CeeLo Green -
I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.
Lee Ann Womack -
Bringing people together is one of my favorite things... I believed that's what a rock 'n' roll Jesus would really do - bring people together through music.
Robert James Ritchi
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The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.
Jason Isbell -
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
Pete Townshend The Who -
A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity of those hard bodies, in the constitution of this earth, or for the permanency of the land on which we dwell, and when he finds that there are means wisely provided for the renovation of this necessary decaying part, as well as that of every other, he then, with pleasure, contemplates this manifestation of design, and thus connects the mineral system of this earth with that by which the heavenly bodies are made to move perpetually in their orbits.
James Hutton