Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul McCartney

Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

Patty Duke

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

Paul Westerberg

We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension.

Paul Westerberg

I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.

Paul Westerberg

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

Paul Westerberg

A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

Mel Brooks

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.

Marty Stuart

Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.

Pietro Metastasio

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.

Pope Francis

Let us build our lives of faith on the rock who is Christ.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

Pete Wentz

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will,

Pete Townshend

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

Pete Townshend

No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.

Pete Townshend

Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.

Pete Townshend

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'

Pete Townshend

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

Peter Marshall

You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sand banks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.

Pope Benedict XVI

Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion

Mick Ralphs

I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.

Jimmy Buffett

I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.

Elvis Presley

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

Elaine Stritch

Everybody's got a sack of rocks.

John Bytheway

Build on the rock before you hit rock bottom!

Joan Cusack

As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because you're trying to create an identity; you look to others to model.

Lester Bangs

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

Lester Bangs

The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

Lester Bangs

Rock is for everybody; it should be so implicitly anti-elitist that the question of whether somebody's qualified to perform it should never even arise.

Lester Bangs

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

Lester Bangs

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

Joseph Campbell

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

Phil Collen

It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released upon the masses in 2012.

Phil Donahue

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.