Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Lee Roth

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

David Lee Roth

Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.

David Lee Roth

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

David Letterman

I wouldn't give my troubles to a monkey on a rock.

David Bowie

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

David Bowie

Rock's always been the devil's music.

David Bowie

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

Debbie Harry

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

Debbie Harry

That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

Angie Everhart

Rock 'n' roll but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.

Angelique Kidjo

The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.

Aloe Blacc

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

We try to keep it rock 'n' roll. Everybody's welcome.

Christopher Lee

We threw a lot of rock yesterday, and we're throwing more rock this afternoon.

Andy Lally

He's been doing this forever, over and over. He's one of the rocks on the team.

He's been a rock back there for us.

I actually feel like a rock star. I feel like I'm important here.

He was pivotal. He was sort of the rock of the Playhouse: organized, disciplined, always in control.

I thought Wednesday was rock bottom. Apparently, it can get worse.

Dick Bennett

I think Batista's the rock on that team.

He was delighted, ... He thought you had to be a rock star or film star to be recognized.

Stephen Jay Gould

In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw, interpolated nothing, and read the record of the rocks directly.

You are the rock on which the school system stands.

Ronnie Spector

When we started, we didn't do it for the money, we didn't do it to be packaged, all we wanted to do was rock 'n' roll, to have fun, and we did.

Robert Morgan

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

Ray Davies

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band.

Stephen Jay Gould

Few intellectual tyrannies can be more recalcitrant than the truths that everybody knows and nearly no one can defend with any decent data (for who needs proof of anything so obvious). And few intellectual activities can be more salutary than attempts to find out whether these rocks of ages might crumble at the slightest tap of an informational hammer.

Billy Graham

Any other foundation will fail, but Christ is a sure and steady rock to build your life on.

Billy Corgan

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

Billy Corgan

We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off.

Billy Corgan

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

Bill Dixon

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

Bill Cosby

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.