Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sheffield

The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

Richard Paul Evans

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

Richard Baxter

'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.

Travis Barker

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

Rick Derringer

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

Rhett Miller

I love to rock, but it's liberating not to always have to keep up with the freight train that is the Old 97's

William Jennings Bryan

The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.

William Wordsworth

Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.

William Shatner

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.

Richard P. Feynman

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

Richelle Mead

Every relationship is different. Everyone loves differently.

Richelle Mead

It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

Russell Brand

When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.

Rose McIver

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

Troye Sivan

I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.

William Gibson

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

Sarah Brightman

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

William Faulkner

It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.

Ronnie Montrose

I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.

Tre Cool

The album was very agressive. It kicks you right in the balls.

Robert Plant

Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!

Rokia Traore

At the beginning of the tour, I arrange the live show exactly like the album, but of course from one audience to another, from one venue to another, it can become longer.

Rufus Wainwright

The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way.

Don Brewer

Our regional success was helpful when we broke nationally, because we'd laid the foundations and were used to being on television and performing live. We did it the old-fashioned way, and built our fan base through stopping by radio stations to promote our albums and touring extensively.

Chris Squire

I guess the idea of doing albums in their entirety, in sequence, appeals to people. I guess it's the memory of being able to hear the music in the way it was originally presented.

Randy Bachman

I just wanted to do something musical. I had just left a band that was number one at the time on all of the charts, both albums and singles.

Cy Coleman

I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.