Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madonna Ciccone

Once you start turning over rocks and reaching out to help people, there's a whole avalanche coming right behind it. And it seems never-ending. But when you see the fruits of your labor, you feel like it's possible.

Lucinda Williams

It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)

Lucretius

Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing the great rock that hangs over him in the air and frozen with vain terror. Rather, it is in this life that fear of the gods oppresses mortals without cause, and the rock they fear is any that chance may bring.

Lucretius

And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.

Melissa Leo

I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.

Nikki Sixx

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

Nikki Sixx

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.

Nick Rhodes

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

Mark Twain

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

Nicholas Sparks

I cry to you, my Lord, my rock! Do not be deaf to me, for if you are silent, I shall go down to the pit like the rest. Hear my voice raised in petition as I cry to you for help, as I raise my hands, my Lord, toward your holy of holies.

Nicholas Sparks

By the time she got back to work, the only thing Gabby knew for certain was that as forgiving as he'd been, she'd never live down what she'd done, and since there wasn't a rock large enough to crawl under, it was in her best interest to find a way to avoid him.

John Green

But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.

Patti Smith

New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by file sharing, downloading, and Myspace. Rock 'n' roll belongs to the people.

Patti Smith

I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock 'n' roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.

Patti Smith

You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

Patti Smith

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

Patti Smith

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll.

Patti Smith

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

Patti Smith

If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!

Patti Smith

Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

Patti Smith

Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

Patti Smith

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

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.

Marilyn Manson

Rock n roll is about drugs.

Marilyn Manson

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

Marilyn Manson

What I'm doing is keeping the spirit of Rock'N Roll alive. Rock 'n roll is supposed to be fast and loud and its supposed to piss off the older generation.

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.