Rock Quotes
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There's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to Phil Collins.
Ahmet Ertegun -
'Dirtbag' is just the term we use, like a 'gnarly dude' in surfing. Within the climbing culture, it means being a committed lifer: someone who has embraced a minimalist ethic in order to rock climb. It basically means you're a homeless person by choice.
Alex Honnold
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Me and the Rock do look a lot alike, and we're a similar build - that was a joke, by the way.
Alex Wolff -
Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.
Bono U2 -
This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
I used to play in rock bands. Then I went to the first school of electronic music in the world. It was in Paris headed by one of the most important people involved in electronic music.
Jean-Michel Jarre -
I saw Chris Rock do standup before he was famous. I was just a teenager. That will always be special to me.
Matt Besser -
The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what I really dig. And I also dig to sing ballads as well. And I also dig writing my own songs. I was just trying to find a way of integrating the whole thing, taking a look at the total picture.
Van Morrison
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I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link.
Jon Bon Jovi -
I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.'
Tara Leigh Patrick -
I don't think I understood guitar rock as well as I probably should have. I don't think I understood bands like Led Zeppelin. In their era, everyone had such a regard for them because of them ushering in rock n' roll and this larger-than-life lifestyle. But then they had these songs that would just not stop. I didn't fully get it.
Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy -
Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation. You can't do the same stroke coming down a small stream as you would coming down Niagara Falls. Even if you're only rowing down a stream, different things happen: maybe the wind changes, maybe the current, and suddenly everything's different. So gently is really important. Don't power yourself or blast through; rock with the way things are.
Bernie Glassman -
I missed the Wilco phenom while busy obsessing over rock en Espanol. So imagine my surprise when I found myself at O'Hare getting on a plane with my Chi-town homeboy, Jeff Tweedy. I loved the guy right away and loved his family. How odd to know somebody before you listen to them. I don't know if that's bad or good.
Luis Alberto Urrea -
We're between a rock and a hard place because there is no site plan and we do not have A-1 zoning in the village.
Don Johnson
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I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
Tom Stoppard -
We create music to express ourselves and when the world relates, that's a beautiful thing. We're all trading off each other's culture, so no matter what lines you put--country indie rock, rap, we're all somehow gonna find a way to come together.
Jay-Z -
Life. As solid and as strong as a rock one minute, then hanging by a thread the next.
Alan Titchmarsh -
I love Eighties rock.
Brantley Gilbert -
What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
Courtney Love -
I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!
Butch Trucks
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Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.
Anaxagoras -
I think I have always made really beat-driven pop-rock records.
Mat Kearney -
Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.
Robert James Ritchi -
At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.
Kevin Hart