Rocks Quotes

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

I think that's what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these different ways, or offered up all these options.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural.

I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just doesn't fit.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.

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.

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

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

Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.

Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.

Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock 'n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.

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.

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.

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.

It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

My boyfriend isn't a rock star. His values are rock solid. We met at a dinner and he made me laugh.

Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me over.

I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

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?'

It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is the Church. And where the Church, no death is there, but life eternal.

I just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies - and dressed their fantasies.

I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked and I thought their opinions sucked.

Nothing is what rocks dream about

I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.

You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

Rock stars hawking Diet Cokes--are demons set loose on the Earth to lower the standards for the perfect & holy children of God!

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