Rocks Quotes

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.

I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.

What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.

Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.

I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

The Rock will always come back to us.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!

Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else.

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium.

Great coders are today’s rock stars.

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.

I'm not a precious text protector, or anything like that, you know, because it's a much more vital form than that. You have to rock.

O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?

Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.

Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you.

In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.

If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.

When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.

I mean, nobody's ever thrown a big rock at me or my friends, but we're all pretty tough guys and could probably handle it.

I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and, in the end, who is the better man?

Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

It was extremely difficult to keep up any pace over the rocks since they were so unpredictable and devoid of reason. Their senselessness had never so much impressed me.

Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.

Do not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls

You may not be able to move the mountain with one hit, but you can do so by picking up the rocks bit by bit! Stop loading yourself and go bit by bit... You will get there!

The present is the key to the past.

Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers.

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

On the rocks of a bay so blue, it made her gray eyes glow.

...please don’t throw any more rocks at the barrier keeping the demonic hordes of the void from pouring over the world.