Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Harper

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.

Alexandre Dumas

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.

Alexandra Fuller

But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of that distant African river as it plummets onto black rocks and sends up into the sun a permanent arc of a rainbow.

It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is the Church. And where the Church, no death is there, but life eternal.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

Adam Sandler

I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.

Ace Frehley

I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

Aaron Rodgers

The Lord is my Rock. He has always been there, always present at good times and bad; and to me when I feel His presence, my life is full.

Abbie Hoffman

Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?

Adrian Mitchell

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

Adam Levine

I don't know if it's possible to live the rock'n'roll lifestyle and still be romantic.

Alex Salmond

The rocks will melt with the sun before tuition fees are introduced in Scotland.

Aleksandar Hemon

The people who listened to rock 'n' roll, I thought, were bound together against the people who didn't listen to rock 'n' roll. That, of course, didn't work at all. Your taste in rock 'n' roll does not say anything about you, morally or otherwise.

Compay Segundo

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

Dar Williams

Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.

Dan O'Brien

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

Cliff Richard

Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

Courtney Love

In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.

Courtney Love

I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.

Courtney Love

I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it.

Courtney Love

But, you know, all good rock is easy.

Courtney Love

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

Courtney Love

I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.

Colin Meloy

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

Robert Morgan

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

David Bowie

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

David Bowie

Rock's always been the devil's music.

David Bowie

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

Dave Grohl

Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

Dave Grohl

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

Danny Bonaduce

People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.

Colin Greenwood

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.