Rock Quotes - page 5

These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new civilization on a bleak and rock bound coast. It was the White Men who drove north to Alaska and west to California; the men who opened up the tropics and subdued the Arctics; the men who mastered the African Veldts; the men who peopled Australia and seized the gates of the world at Suez, Gibraltar and Panama. (Ben Klassen)
Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth. View quote
Nâzım Hikmet
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. View quote
Alexis Carrel
Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face. View quote
William S. Burroughs
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. View quote
Keith Richards
If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll. View quote
Bruce Dickinson
Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only. View quote
Ritchie Blackmore
I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain. View quote
Ritchie Blackmore
There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material. View quote
Noel Gallagher
I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll. View quote
Bon Scott
"Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the world looks black.""Truth," said a traveller, "Is a breath, a wind, "A shadow, a phantom; "Long have I pursued it, "But never have I touched "The hem of its garment."And I believed the second traveller; For truth was to me A breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom, And never had I touched The hem of its garment. (Stephen Crane)
Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake their shackle. View quote
Gene Simmons
Punk: "Story time is over, Rock. Every time you want to 'bring it,' because it belongs to me, I'm just going to take it!" View quote
Phil Brooks
I cry to you, my Lord, my rock! Do not be deaf to me, for if you are silent, I shall go down to the pit like the rest. Hear my voice raised in petition as I cry to you for help, as I raise my hands, my Lord, toward your holy of holies. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as just another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had been arrested in Miami for jacking off in a seedy little XXX theater while stroking the spine of a fat young boy. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer. View quote
Charisma Carpenter
The weed crushed and pressed by the heavy rock may slowly and gently grow up anew helped by the fresh air, sunshine, and sympathetic rain. On the other hand, the rock is often broken through exposure to nature and weathering. Life is a strong power to grow in tenderness; this fact may be considered as having a close relation with human life. At the same time tenderness has sometimes stronger power against stiffness or hardening due to extreme strain. View quote
Kyuzo Mifune
I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition. View quote
Paul McCartney
Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I think Freddie Mercury is probably the best of all time in terms of a rock voice. There was a vulnerability to it, his technical ability was amazing, and so much of his personality would come out through his voice. I'm not even a guy to buy Queen records, really, and I still think he's one of the best. View quote
Chris Cornell
Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality. (Chris Cornell)
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. View quote
Lee Iacocca
The Earth we share is not just a rock tossed through space, but a living, nurturing being. She cares for us, she deserves our care in return. View quote
Michael Jackson
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music ... an obscene looting of a cultural expression. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes. View quote
Elvis Presley