Rocks Quotes

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.

We met [with Massimo Pupillo] many years ago in the halcyon days of the underground avant-prog math-rock scene when I was playing in Guapo.

The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar.

You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.

That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

I'm sorry, Mankind can't get to the phone right now, cause he's got The Rock's foot in his mouth!

This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.

When I post a selfie and someone comments, 'Oh, sure, go ahead and reclaim your sexuality, I got my rocks off,' that's not my problem.

Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock.

Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

Rock 'n' roll never sleeps it just passes out.

Back in the day I used to drive with a rock just in case.

When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice.

I don t wanna see old people on a rock & roll stage.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

We've been doing something every year. We had a rock concert a few years ago to benefit the Garden of Dreams. And then we had the mask event.

Rock stars, is there anything they don't know?

Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.

Rock bottom can be a solid foundation from which you can rebuild your life on.

All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.

Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.

I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old.

I wish I had somebody to rock me to sleep.

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

You get as much out of rock & roll artistically as you put into it. There's nobody who can teach you. You're on your own and that's what I find so fascinating about it.

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

Being in a rock n' roll and pop world, it's very easy to act like a kid.

I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for the best, but what is merely germ, what blossom and what fruit I do not know.

When you're writing for theater or TV, it's open-ended in scope. You can write 10 separate pieces that are really effective but have no place on a rock record or whatever.

Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams!

It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.

I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.

That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.

Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

conversation is like a dear little baby that is brought in to be handed round. You must rock it, nurse it, keep it on the move if you want it to keep smiling.

A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning.

I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.

When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.

I am happy to be able to be part of this Rock'n'Blues Fest as the first tour since the amputation of my right leg. I hope this gives me a leg up on the new year!

In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.