Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exciting event?

Fisher Ames

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

Henry Louis Gates

I thought, "why don't we be innovative and create something nobody had ever done before?" It was a huge hit and we immediately did a sequel with Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner and Maya Angelou.

Cat Power

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

Gotye

When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice.

Gillian Flynn

My brain goes very easily into the darkness. It always has. There are people who like to see what's under the rock and people who don't, and for some reason I've always been one of those to say, 'Hey, let's flip over that rock.'

Gillian Jacobs

I would love it if 'Community' could have a trajectory like '30 Rock' and choose when to go out.

James Daly

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

Jake Shimabukuro

Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.

Jam Master Jay

There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it.

Jack White

The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today

J. R. R. Tolkien

Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!

Elton John

Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything.

Elton John

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

Elton John

I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.

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.

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!

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.

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.