Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Winwood

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.

Steve Vai

You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

Veronica Roth

That’s one way of looking at it. I prefer to look at it another way—which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.

Vince McMahon

The Rock will always come back to us.

Samantha Barks

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

Rodney Atkins

I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.

Vivian Campbell

Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

Warren Cuccurullo

You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.

Warren Buffett

You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map.

Wayne Knight

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

Tony Orlando

Progressive rock was happening.

Van Morrison

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

Van Morrison

And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic

Ursula K. Le Guin

And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.

Tyler Posey

I'd love to be a rockstar.

Tyrese Gibson

Is Chris Rock still gonna host the Oscars after this blatant racism?? Is everyone still gonna show up??

William Gurnall

Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.

Waylon Jennings

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

Stephen Colbert

(Rush are) like the JD Salinger of Canadian Prog Rock

Herbie Hancock

The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

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.

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.

Jennifer Weiner

They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.

Jello Biafra

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

Jello Biafra

If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.

Jello Biafra

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.