Rocks Quotes

It'd be the thrill of anyone's bull riding career to ride Red Rock. Like when Freckles Brown rode Tornado.

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

One will never reach distant shores, if he chooses to remain upon the dock, In fear his little ship of dreams may be dashed against the rocks.

We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.

What has Rock and Roll ever done for us? Everything.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork.

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that.

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago.

I would never know how that person felt when they first heard my song. They coulda been at rock bottom and my song could have literally been the thing that saved them, but I would never know that.

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.

People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.

When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace.

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.