Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pamela Anderson

It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the merely vulgar seem commonplace.

Kanye West

I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.

Kanye West

I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything. There's certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I'ma go get that. Like, on Christmas I don't want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don't want my credit to look black.

Paul Kantner

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

Paul Kantner

Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

Patrick Stump

I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

Patrick Carney

Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world,

Nick Lowe

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

Nick Lowe

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

Nick Carter

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

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.

Little Richard

I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

Little Richard

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

Little Richard

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

Little Richard

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

Little Richard

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.

Little Richard

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

Little Richard

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

Neil Young

Rock and roll is here to stay.

Neil Young

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

Neil Young

Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

Neil Young

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

Neil Young

Hey, hey, my, my, rock and roll will never die.

Joey Ramone

Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.

Jodi Picoult

It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.

Jodi Picoult

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

Jodi Picoult

The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.