Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kanye West

I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.

Kanye West

I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything. There's certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I'ma go get that. Like, on Christmas I don't want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don't want my credit to look black.

Paul Kantner

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

Paul Kantner

Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

Patrick Stump

I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

Patrick Carney

Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world,

Haruki Murakami

Maybe she thought the garbage and rocks in your head were interesting. But finally, garbage is garbage and rocks are rocks.

Greg Behrendt

Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

John Dryden

Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.

John Coltrane

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

Lupe Fiasco

I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.

Luis Miguel

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.

John Ambrose Fleming

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.

Matt Tong

I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all.

Maximilien Robespierre

Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

Mark Skousen

Gold is as steady as a rock, a standardbearer by which all currencies can be accurately measured.

Matt Berninger

I actually don't go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.

Kirk Franklin

God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.

Kirk Hammett

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

Kirk Cameron

I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Rock is much more malleable than ideas.

Ken Hensley

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

Kathleen Hanna

There's comedians who I consider extremely punk rock who I've seen do very political stand up in places where nobody wants to hear that. It's uncomfortable and scary and you realize it's the punkest performance you've ever witnessed.

Kathleen Hanna

Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?

Kathleen Hanna

My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.

Jim DeRogatis

Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.

Jim Davis

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

Little Richard

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

Little Richard

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

Little Richard

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

Little Richard

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.