Rocks famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.
-- Aaron Carter -
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.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts.
-- Abbi Glines -
The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
-- Abbie Hoffman -
If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
-- Abbie Hoffman -
My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
-- Abel Ferrara -
I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.
-- Ace Frehley -
I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.
-- Ace Frehley -
I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
-- Ace Frehley -
I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.
-- Adam Clayton -
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
-- Adam Gopnik -
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
-- Adam Lambert -
We don't have a lot of men on stage doing flamboyant or theatrical. We have a lot of female pop stars doing it, but where are the guys? Where's the classic pop-rock showman?
-- Adam Lambert -
People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.
-- Adam Lambert -
I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.
-- Adam Lambert -
I don't know if it's possible to live the rock'n'roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
-- Adam Levine -
That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.
-- Adam Rich -
Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.
-- Adam Rich -
Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.
-- Adam Rich -
We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.
-- Adam Rich -
In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.
-- Adam Sandler -
I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.
-- Adam Sandler -
One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Our party remains as firm as this rock and will not be divided by any force in Germany.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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.
-- Adrian Mitchell -
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
-- Adrian Mitchell -
Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance!
-- Adrian Rogers -
Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.
-- Al Jourgensen -
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
-- Al Stewart -
There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
-- Al Stewart -
With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
-- Alain Robert -
To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
-- Alan Cooper -
Let's face it. Rock and Roll is bigger than all of us
-- Alan Freed -
I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.
-- Alan Lee -
A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.
-- Alan Light -
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
-- Alan Parsons -
The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
-- Alan Rickman -
I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.
-- Alan Thicke -
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
-- Albert Camus -
I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as was I ... these were the rock and roll guys who really sparked our interest in the guitar, and later we delved into other things and went different directions ... during my time with Eric Clapton, we talked about what we'd listened to early on, and he was a huge fan of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis
-- Albert Lee -
Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in rock in hollows on mountains, which water no doubt deposited there enveloped in sticky mud, and which were prevented by coldness and dryness of the stone from petrifying completely. Very striking evidence of this kind is found in the stones of Paris, in which one very often meets round shells the shape of the moon.
-- Albertus Magnus -
Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.
-- Alec Baldwin -
I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.
-- Aleksis Kivi -
I like to dress pretty basic during the day, but with a sophisticated bohemian spin, and sometimes a little rock chic. At night I like to go glamorous.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.
-- Alessandro Nivola -
Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.
-- Alethea Kontis -
Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.
-- Alex Borstein -
Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing mountains here. I'm a big rock climber. I head out into the mountains whenever I have free time. It's amazing.
-- Alex Pettyfer -
That rock and roll, eh? That rock and roll, it just won't go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into the swap. I think the cyclical nature of the universe in which it exists demands that acquiesce to some of its rules. But it's always waiting there, just around the corner, ready to make its way back through the sludge and smash through the glass ceiling, looking better than ever. Yeah, that rock and roll, it seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die. And there's nothing you can do about it
-- Alex Turner -
Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive.
-- Alex Turner -
I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
-- Alex Van Halen -
I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
I think it would be really awesome to be a rock star.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
-- Alexander Pope -
Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.
-- Alexander von Humboldt -
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.
-- Alexandra Fuller -
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
-- 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.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
-- Alexis Carrel -
Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail it with you.
-- Alice Clayton -
If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.
-- Alice Cooper -
Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.
-- Alice Cooper -
If somebody had told me that you have a choice of being a rock star or playing left field for the Tigers, there would not have been a choice at all. I would have said, 'Where's my locker?'
-- Alice Cooper -
Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.
-- Alice Cooper -
All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.
-- Alice Cooper -
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 Sebold -
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.
-- Alicia Keys -
30 Rock' is probably one of my favorite shows. It's just joke after joke after joke.
-- Alison Brie -
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
-- 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.
-- Allan Bloom -
So, will his new gun laws - aimed primarily at law-abiding firearms owners - reduce the crime rate even further? Rock is hesitant to give a conclusive answer: "I think it will help. (But) I don't want to overstate it. I don't want to give any guarantees."
-- Allan Rock -
The basket looked like an ocean, and I was just throwing rocks in.
-- Allen Iverson -
Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper.
-- Allison Brennan -
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.
-- Aloe Blacc -
The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
-- Amanda Palmer -
I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.
-- Amanda Palmer -
I encourage you to find your punk-rock, your lucha-libre, your pro-wrestling
-- Amy Dumas -
True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.
-- Amy Harmon -
Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.
-- 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!
-- Amy Lee -
I don't want to be Christina Aguilera. I want to be Amy Lee, rock queen - not sex queen.
-- Amy Lee -
I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to RB and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.
-- Amy Lee -
I don't want to ever be a quote-unquote rock star. I want to just be me.
-- Amy Lee -
Every time a cool rock chick or actress seems to respect themselves as a strong woman, I'm like, 'Yeah!' And I love them, and they're my girls. And then they start to go downhill and people aren't paying attention anymore. So they start stripping their clothes off, because that's all they have left. I swear to everything I've ever known, I will never do that
-- Amy Lee -
But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.
-- Amy Ray -
Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a short time; and for that they demand a great deal. The struggle is not with the enemy, or a competitor like in sports, but with yourself, with the feelings of weakness and inadequacy. That struggle appeals to me. It is why I became a mountaineer.
-- Anatoli Boukreev -
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.
-- Anaxagoras -
To us, it's vey natural. Initially, it sounded kind of strange to people, because it is different to put traditional Irish music in a pop and rock mode. But they get used to it -- it is our sound.
-- Andrea Corr -
What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.
-- Andrew Bird
