Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dylan

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

Billy Childish

I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.

Billy Bragg

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

Billy Corgan

Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.

Billy Corgan

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

Billy Corgan

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

Bon Scott

Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?

Bruce Dickinson

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.

Bruce Springsteen

When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

Bruce Springsteen

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

Bruce Springsteen

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

Bruce Springsteen

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

Bruce Springsteen

A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.

Brendan Fraser

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in

Brendan Fraser

I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

Brad Paisley

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock

Brad Paisley

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.

Billie Joe Armstrong

To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit

Billie Joe Armstrong

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.

Billie Joe Armstrong

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

Billy Bob Thornton

If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for.

Charles Portis

It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.

Dimitar Sasselov

We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.

Dan Stevens

It’s not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the most incredible thing you’ll ever witness.

Dan Auerbach

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

Craig Finn

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

Craig Ferguson

Sober alkies are often asked: When did you hit rock bottom? but a more informed question might be: How many times did you hit rock bottom?

Elizabeth Taylor

I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable...Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way.

Ashley Benson

I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz.

Armistead Maupin

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.