Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cyndi Lauper

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

Dave Eggers

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

David Lee Roth

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

David Lee Roth

Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.

David Lee Roth

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

David Letterman

I wouldn't give my troubles to a monkey on a rock.

Delmore Schwartz

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Debbie Harry

That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

Angie Everhart

Rock 'n' roll but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.

Angelique Kidjo

The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.

Aloe Blacc

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

Chuck Palahniuk

In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

Chuck Eddy

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

Chuck Klosterman

We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.

Chuck Berry

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar...

Chuck Berry

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

Chuck Berry

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

Chuck D.

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

Christopher Ricks

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

Christopher Paolini

Let's drop rocks on them!

Anne Boleyn

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

Angelina Jolie

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion. It doesn’t shake me because I know why I do the things I do and I know I come from a good place and so people can judge me however they wish. But I know I’ll continue to do the best I can and be the best I can.

Angelina Jolie

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion

Anthony Kiedis

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience

Alison Brie

30 Rock' is probably one of my favorite shows. It's just joke after joke after joke.

Alice Sebold

but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.

Alice Walker

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

Anika Noni Rose

I rock because sometimes I'm scared and that's alright. I rock because I'm not afraid to cry. I rock because I'm loved and I'm able to love. I rock...I rock.

Andy Goldsworthy

I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.

Andy Goldsworthy

As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.

Amy Lee

People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want!

Allan Bloom

[Rock and the intellectual Left] must both be interpreted as parts of the cultural fabric of late capitalism. Their success comes from the bourgeois' need to feel that he is not bourgeois.

Andy Andrews

When people have something proven to them, and they see that it really benefits them, they don't have to be looking for a change or be at rock bottom. When they see something proven that is of benefit to them, they'll turn around 180 degrees and never look back.