Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patti Smith

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll.

Patti Smith

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

Patti Smith

If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!

Patti Smith

Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

Patti Smith

Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

Patti Smith

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

Ozzy Osbourne

How can you go on stage and shout 'Yeah! Rock'n'roll forever!' and then go to bed at 10 o'clock with a nightcap on, a candle in your hand and a Bible under your arm?

Ozzy Osbourne

You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay

Ozzy Osbourne

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

Ovid

What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

He's not going to be sitting in a rocking chair. I can't wait to see what he's going to be doing.

Martin Biron

It was rock bottom. It couldn't get any worse than that.

It will be a kick-ass rock 'n' roll show. We like to rock out.

Dave Grohl

Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

Dave Grohl

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

Danny Bonaduce

People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.

Colin Greenwood

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

Jeanette MacDonald

I must have had rocks in my head.

Billy Corgan

Interviewer: "If you weren't a rock star..." Billy: "I wouldn't be wearing these silver pants.

Lemmy Kilmister

If you think that you are too old to rock 'n roll then you are.

Jack McDevitt

If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.

Jack Black

There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.

J. C. Ryle

The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.

Irving Azoff

The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.

George Best

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

Frederick William Faber

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Eric Burdon

I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

Eric Burdon

The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.

Ted Turner

He's just a kid, ... I think he was off his rocker when he said those things.

Ikue Mori

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

Jorma Kaukonen

But I'm a rock 'n' roller. I will always sound like me.

Hannibal Buress

People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.

Greg Ginn

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.