Rocks Quotes

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

In the sea you've got to be constantly sort of alert. It's worse in the sea [than anywhere else in the animal kingdom]. In the sea you've got an enemy behind every rock.

Glitter is cool because that's like glam rock, but rhinestones need to die out.

I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with.

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins

Communication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel.

The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen.

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.

If I have learned anything from my SIMS family: When a child doesn't see his father enough he starts to jump up and down, then his mood level will drop until he pees himself.

My mom used to send me articles about how older virgins are considered good luck in Mexico.

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

Skating is what got me into punk rock.

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage.

You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock band. So I, in a very naïve and teenage way, said, "That's it. I'm going to be in a band."

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world.

No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.

Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.

I'm not sure at all about the current prog rock scene.

To act choicelessly is to act in accord with the situation. If someone throws a rock, you duck.

Whatever's most important to you is your god. If it's not the Rock Christ Jesus, then it's sand!

Rock is stronger than any misguided theories of cultural events. It's bigger than that.

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

All rock and roll is homosexual.

I wanna rock right now.

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

When you fall, never get up without gaining anything. Always find something on the way up. If there are only rocks, grasp one to throw in order to defend yourself.

Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.

Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.

With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar. The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted.