Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Young

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

Joey Ramone

Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.

Jodi Picoult

It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.

Jodi Picoult

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

Jodi Picoult

The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.

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.

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

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.

Muhammad Ali

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

Mitch Miller

It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)

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.

Marian Wright Edelman

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Neil Armstrong

Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a ... crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks ... and it required ... flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.

Naomi Klein

In pragmatic terms, our challenge is less to save the earth from ourselves and more to save ourselves from an earth that, if pushed too far, has ample power to rock, burn, and shake us off completely.

Oprah Winfrey

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!