Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!

Elton John

Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything.

Elton John

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

Elton John

I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.

Irving Azoff

The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.

Miles Davis

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

Joseph Addison

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

Jose Gonzalez

It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.

Jordan Rudess

Affectors Harmagedon is a solid blast of PROG metal complete with burning solos, odd time signatures, orchestral highlights, and Rock riffs that will tear your head off! Excited that I could be a part of this album!

Jonny Greenwood

Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.

Jonny Greenwood

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Jonny Lang

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

Kevin Brockmeier

You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground.

Joe Walsh

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.

John C. McGinley

You go see 'Timothy Green,' and tell me if it doesn't rock your world. I loved it. I loved every frame of it.

James Surowiecki

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

James Patterson

If my life were a corny horror movie, and the heroine was lost and alone, trapped in an underwater cave, what would happen next? If you guessed, “She drops her flashlight, and it hits a rock and breaks, leaving her in utter darkness,” you would be right. But I bet you didn’t guess the part about an attack by a giant octopus.

Emily Carr

As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.

Emily Bronte

My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

Ellsworth Kelly

I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder.

Heath Ledger

But the paparazzi are quite malicious and vocal and really rude, ... And they camped outside of my house, so I started throwing eggs at them, lobbing them at rocks next to them.

Heather Locklear

I don't date rock 'n' rollers. I just marry them.

Hilary Duff

Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.

Henry James

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for the best, but what is merely germ, what blossom and what fruit I do not know.

Kurt Cobain

The future of rock belongs to women.

Kurt Cobain

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

Ketch Secor

It's true that bluegrass is a virtuosic form and asks that of its performer. Old-time music is older rawer and purer. It's less stylized. We don't solo. Well sometimes we do, but it's different it has more to do with rock-and-roll than bluegrass does.

Kesha

People say that rock 'n' roll is dead, and I am making it my mission to resurrect it. I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.

Orson Welles

I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out

Masashi Kishimoto

Well.. Is that all you've got?.. I hope not..cuz you haven't finished entertaining me yet.. -Gaara to Rock Lee during the Chunin preliminary

Ted Nugent

I have undeniable evidence that many have awakened as a result of my raising hell. Raising hell is SO American rock-and-roll. And of course even soulless wimps love killer music and my incredible guitar tone.