Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Knight

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

Tony Orlando

Progressive rock was happening.

Van Morrison

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

Van Morrison

Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.

Van Morrison

And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic

Ursula K. Le Guin

And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.

Tyler Posey

I'd love to be a rockstar.

Tyrese Gibson

Is Chris Rock still gonna host the Oscars after this blatant racism?? Is everyone still gonna show up??

William Gurnall

Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.

Waylon Jennings

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

Waylon Jennings

The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.

Stephen Colbert

(Rush are) like the JD Salinger of Canadian Prog Rock

Herbie Hancock

The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

Jessica Lange

For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.

Jerry Hall

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

Jeremy Grantham

Everyone asks about gold. This is the irony: just as Jim Grant tells us (correctly) that we all have faith-based paper currencies backed by nothing, it is equally fair to say that gold is a faith-based metal. It pays no dividend, cannot be eaten, and is mostly used for nothing more useful than jewelry. I would say that anything of which 75% sits idly and expensively in bank vaults is, as a measure of value, only one step up from the Polynesian islands that attached value to certain well-known large rocks that were traded.

Jeffrey Eugenides

All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now!

George Harrison

Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.

Gary Snyder

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

Gary Snyder

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

Gary Burton

There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.

Gary Carter

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

Jennifer Weiner

They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.

Jello Biafra

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

Jello Biafra

If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.

Jello Biafra

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

Jeff Beck

I've never stuck around long enough to know if anyone would miss me. That's rock 'n' roll, though. Here today, gone tomorrow.

Jeaniene Frost

Yes, but you are still only human.” I laughed, the sound of it drowned out by the crunch of rocks as the mountain continued to shudder as though in the throes of birth pangs. “So was Van Helsing, yet in every movie, he beat the vampire in the end. Never underestimate the power of humanity.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made.

Jeff Buckley

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Jeff Probst

Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want.