Rocks Quotes

Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.

Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.

My records are borderline dance records. They've got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there's a lot of people that were like, 'This is a dance record.'

All you care about is how punk rock you feel when you wake up in the morning.

A woman needs her privacy while drinking a dirty Belvedere martini on the rocks with a splash of Tabasco.

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

In the rolling sea of new state, new school, new dangers everywere, Daniel was the only rock she had to hold on to.And he was adout to leave her?

That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.

Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.

I really didn't know a lot of rock 'n' roll until I moved to L.A. Before that, when I was in New York, I grew up listening mostly to R&B and soul and jazz.

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

I didn't really listen to rock 'n' roll until I moved to LA. We would ditch school, go get high, put on Zeppelin IV and just bug out.

You have to be talented and you have to be lucky. Record companies are not signing classic rock groups anymore.

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.

Everyone lives under their rocks in L.A., so it takes a long time to find your lane.

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

I'm not much of a political person and even if I was, look, Rock 'n' Roll is supposed to be fun and sexy and a little bit dangerous.

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

You can do some serious subway flirting before you realize the guy is homeless.

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

I've got a good life, and I don't think anything can rock that anymore.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.

I have a crush on Steve Tyler. He's funny, he rocks, and has a voice like a god. There is another one who I have discovered can sing. I should try and make an album with him... it's Barack Obama!

For me, it's more about keeping it simple with a rock and roll edge. It's all about accessorising.

Ancient rock paintings remind us that there are no unclaimed lands, that people have always lived here. They are wayposts along the river journey to the interior of the mind and heart.

You aren't angry " "You must be joking " she said dryly. "I'm alive Nicholas. And I'm immortal like you. This rocks

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.

The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self.

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

I get butterflies in my stomach before I perform. I love them! They let me know I'm ready to perform, that I'm ready to rock out on stage.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and that's what I like.

When people talk about gender-benders and bracket me with George, I always think I'm not like that. I had more of a rock edge, mixed with the 80s electro.

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.

Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.

Rock n roll is about drugs.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

I'm not a fan in a rock concert, you see. I am a political leader in a great nation of the world. What interests me are France's interests.

I really want to be a rock star.