Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Brownstein

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

Art Alexakis

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

Art Alexakis

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

Bertrand Russell

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

David Amram

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.

Dave Davies

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Dave Barry

By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.

Carl Sagan

We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.

Baz Luhrmann

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

Leaning to the side but you can't speed through; 2 miles an hour so everybody sees you.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

Parents just don't understand.

DJ Quik

My forte is the music. But obviously if ya don't keep up with the business, then your kinda doing it for nothing. So I do plan on being well off doing, maximizing what I do now. I heard Jimmy Kimmel describe being in your thirties in hip-hop is like the equivalent to being 300 yrs. old; almost like a dinosaur.

Charlie Hunnam

I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.

Busta Rhymes

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

Axl Rose

I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.

Bela Fleck

I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.

Ariel Rechtshaid

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

Korey Kostur

He'd been knocking me off-balance with his hips all night. I was ready for that, and when he shifted, I went between his legs and sucked him tight.

David Sedaris

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

David Cross

I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.

Diablo Cody

I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.

Diablo Cody

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

Kurt Vonnegut

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

C.J. Wilson

I can't be one of those hipster guys with a beard when I have a hair campaign. I strive to look a little bit more... all-American.

Bo Jackson

Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.

Chad Kroeger

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.