Rocks Quotes

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

I would hate to have "Holiday in Cambodia" become as tiresome to other people as hearing "Like a Rock" in a Chevrolet commercial.

When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.

The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exciting event?

I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.

Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away.

Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.

One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Mötley Crüe could be the first band to play on the moon.

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

An idea in the head is like a rock in the shoe; I just can't wait to get it out.

Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.

I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the song, I turn it up and start to sing.

I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.

Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.

If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we'd have a built-in fanbase so we could pretty much play anywhere, people would show up and rock out

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

Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.

I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

Live every week like it's shark week.

Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He is the Rock, His work is perfect: For all His ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is He.

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

Say planet rock, it's a sure shot.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll.

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.