Famous Quotes & Sayings

Delmore Schwartz

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

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.

Dante Alighieri

So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.

Dan Fogelberg

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

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.

David Spade

I don't like throwing myself in a place that's going to rock my world.

David Lynch

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

David Harsanyi

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

David Carson

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

Dan Brown

What's the matter?'' She immediately started laughin. ''What's the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter!

Corey Feldman

I want to do rock operas.

Daniel Webster

He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial system of the United States, as it burst forth from the conceptions of Alexander Hamilton.

Cyndi Lauper

People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.

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.

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.

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.

Andy Lally

He's been doing this forever, over and over. He's one of the rocks on the team.