Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ozzy Osbourne

How can you go on stage and shout 'Yeah! Rock'n'roll forever!' and then go to bed at 10 o'clock with a nightcap on, a candle in your hand and a Bible under your arm?

Ozzy Osbourne

You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay

Ozzy Osbourne

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

Ovid

What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

Matt Groening

The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.

Mary Harron

Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories.

Marisa Miller

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

Marilyn Manson

Rock n roll is about drugs.

Marilyn Manson

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

Marilyn Manson

What I'm doing is keeping the spirit of Rock'N Roll alive. Rock 'n roll is supposed to be fast and loud and its supposed to piss off the older generation.

Freddie Mercury

Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.

Christopher Hitchens

Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.

Christina Aguilera

I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.

Chris Robinson

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

Chris Shiflett

With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.

Chris Rock

Hollywood's racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It's like - we like you, Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa.

Gerard Way

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

Gerard Way

It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.

Fran Drescher

Without music the world will still turn, but it won't rock.

Fran Drescher

I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.

Nancy Sinatra

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

Miles Davis

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

Joseph Addison

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

Jose Gonzalez

It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.

Jordan Rudess

Affectors Harmagedon is a solid blast of PROG metal complete with burning solos, odd time signatures, orchestral highlights, and Rock riffs that will tear your head off! Excited that I could be a part of this album!

Jonny Greenwood

Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.

Jonny Greenwood

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Jonny Lang

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

Joni Mitchell

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

Kevin Brockmeier

You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground.

Katie Aselton

It's not rocket science to make a movie.

Joe Walsh

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.

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.