Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grimes

You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.

Graham Greene

People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.

Goran Ivanisevic

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

Iggy Pop

The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.

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.

George Best

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

Frederick William Faber

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Eric Burdon

The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.

Gary Payton

Way to rock lil' homie. Much Love.

Gabriel Iglesias

As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.

Christopher Alexander

There are geologists who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pronouncement.

Christine Ebersole

It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.

Christine Feehan

Jonas. Their rock. Shattered into so many shards. Holding himself together through the sheer force of will.

Chris Horner

Let me tell you, though - there’s a huge difference between Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. They’re not even close to the same. In one, the cobbles are used every day by the cars, and kept up, and stuff like that. The other one - it’s completely different … The best I could do would be to describe it like this - they plowed a dirt road, flew over it with a helicopter, and then just dropped a bunch of rocks out of the helicopter! That’s Paris–Roubaix. It’s that bad - it’s ridiculous.

Chris Jericho

I am the Ayatollah of rock 'n' rolla

George W. Bush

Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations.

George Thorogood

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

George Carlin

Soft rock music isn’t rock, and it ain’t music. It’s just soft.

Gene Simmons

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

Gene Simmons

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered,

Fergie

There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.

Felipe Alou

Those who feel they are clean, go ahead and throw the first rock. If you're clean, if you have not done anything wrong or been accused of anything wrong, go ahead and start the show.

Felicity Jones

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.

Fay Wray

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock.

Fats Domino

Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff.

Fats Domino

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

Ezra Taft Benson

A missionary should never permit himself to see a movie or (read) cheap literature, or hear music that tends to interfere with or which dampens the spirit of missionary work. There is ample evidence that rock music is offensive to the Spirit and affects adversely the spirituality of the missionaries and thus the success of the proselyting work.

Frances McDormand

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

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.