Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bret Easton Ellis

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.

Brandi Carlile

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

Boris Becker

I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.

Bootsy Collins

I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.

Bobby Vinton

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

Bobby Vinton

I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.

Bob Dylan

I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.

Bob Dylan

I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)

Bob Dylan

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

Billy Childish

I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.

Billy Bragg

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

Billy Corgan

Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.

Billy Corgan

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

Billy Corgan

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

Billy Corgan

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

Bon Scott

Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?

Bon Scott

I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.

Bruce Dickinson

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.

Arjun Rampal

I've been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it 'Rock on!' 'The Last Lear' or 'Raajneeti,' directors started working in a different way.

Antonin Scalia

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

Brooke Burke

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

Bridget Hall

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

Eckhart Tolle

What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light.

Eckhart Tolle

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

Blythe Danner

I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really rock 'n' roll — but he's made me a convert. I do go to their concerts whenever we're in the same town and I don't even have to wear earplugs any more, which I did in the beginning.

Billy Gibbons

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

Billy Joel

All she wanted was sax.

Billy Joel

I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.

Billy Joel

She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.

Billy Joel

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

Billy Joel

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

Billy Joel

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

Billy Joel

You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.