Famous Quotes & Sayings

Big Pun

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

Bert McCracken

I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.

Carrie Brownstein

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

Carrie Underwood

Peace Love Rock and Roll!!!

Art Alexakis

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

Art Alexakis

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

Tim Farriss

J.D. ... you are right for our band, INXS ... you are the rock star.

Bill Griffith

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

Bette Midler

I sold my soul to rock and roll.

Bill Gates

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

Bob Geldof

Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.

Charlie Simpson

I understand how hard rock fans feel inside out, because I was one of those people.

Charlie Sheen

I was bangin’ 7 gram rocks and finishing them because that’s how I roll

Charlie Sheen

Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.

Mark Cuban

We're rocking the film festival. If you've seen a movie, you've seen one of ours,

Henry Spencer

Solid-fuel rockets can't easily be shut down on command.

Kevin Millar

You are a rock star when you play in that city.

Bill Belichick

We executed it pretty well, ... I thought we could have done all right in the 3-4. We just got off to a rocky start.

Bertrand Russell

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.

John Varvatos

When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a rock star, but he's kind of a rock star to me.

Billy Gibbons

Rock 'n' roll and automobiles have always had this synergistic connection,

John Hall

Rock Me on the Water ... Still the One.

Richard Engel

Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided.

Richard Tucker

I tease them about geezer rock and now they're seeing it themselves.

John C. McGinley

You go see 'Timothy Green,' and tell me if it doesn't rock your world. I loved it. I loved every frame of it.

James Surowiecki

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

James Patterson

If my life were a corny horror movie, and the heroine was lost and alone, trapped in an underwater cave, what would happen next? If you guessed, “She drops her flashlight, and it hits a rock and breaks, leaving her in utter darkness,” you would be right. But I bet you didn’t guess the part about an attack by a giant octopus.

Joe Perry

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

Joe Perry

There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me

Joe Perry

The Beatles did everything long before anyone else. They weren't afraid to try things and to experiment with a lot of sounds. In 200 years, when you look up 'rock and roll' in the dictionary, it'll have a picture of the Beatles next to it.

John French Sloan

When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot.

John Frusciante

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.