Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay-Z

Used to rock a throwback ballin on the corner, now I rock tailored suit lookin' like a owner.

Jay-Z

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

Jay-Z

When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist.

Buzz Aldrin

Did the Pilgrims on the Mayflower sit around Plymouth Rock waiting for a return trip? They came here to settle. And that's what we should be doing on Mars. When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.

Buzz Aldrin

We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape - angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock.... The colors - well.... There doesn't appear to be too much of a general color at all; however, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders are going to have some interesting colors to them. Over.

Bruno Mars

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

Kristin Cavallari

I love Chloe Sevigny's style - the way she manages to add a touch of rock n' roll to every look.

Klaus Schulze

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.

Knut Hamsun

There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me...

Mike Dirnt

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

Natalie Babbitt

Living's heavy work, but off to one side, the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute. You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

Ken Wilber

Evolution does not isolate us from the rest of the Kosmos, it unites us with the rest of the Kosmos: the same currents that produced birds from dust and poetry from rocks produce egos from ids and sages from egos.

Keith Richards

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.

Keith Richards

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

Keith Richards

The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...

Keith Richards

I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he's gonna do tomorrow and I'm just happy to wake up to see who's hanging around. Mick's rock and I'm roll.

Keith Richards

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Kim Gordon

No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it’s good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behaviour, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill.

Idris Elba

In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.

Giorgio Moroder

I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.

J. K. Rowling

Rock bottom can be a solid foundation from which you can rebuild your life on.

Grace Metalious

Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips ... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to expose maggots.

Grace Jones

Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.

Gary Kemp

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

Jean Ziegler

The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance.

GG Allin

My body is the rock and roll temple and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people whether they like it or not

Francis Quarles

My soul, the seas are rough, and thou a stranger In these false coasts; O keep aloof; there's danger; Cast forth thy plummet; see, a rock appears; Thy ships want sea-room; make it with thy tears.

Ian MacKaye

People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz. It could be called hip-hop. It could be called blues, or rock, or beat. It could be called techno. It's just a new idea. For me, it was punk rock. That was my entrance to this idea of the new ideas being able to be presented in an environment that wasn't being dictated by a profit motive.

Homer

Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.

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