Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Shiflett

With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.

Chris Rock

Hollywood's racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It's like - we like you, Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa.

Gerard Way

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

Gerard Way

It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.

Herbie Hancock

The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

Jessica Lange

For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.

Jerry Hall

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

Jeremy Grantham

Everyone asks about gold. This is the irony: just as Jim Grant tells us (correctly) that we all have faith-based paper currencies backed by nothing, it is equally fair to say that gold is a faith-based metal. It pays no dividend, cannot be eaten, and is mostly used for nothing more useful than jewelry. I would say that anything of which 75% sits idly and expensively in bank vaults is, as a measure of value, only one step up from the Polynesian islands that attached value to certain well-known large rocks that were traded.

Grimes

You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.

Graham Greene

People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.

Goran Ivanisevic

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

Haley Reinhart

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

Iggy Pop

The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.

Gotye

When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice.

Gillian Flynn

My brain goes very easily into the darkness. It always has. There are people who like to see what's under the rock and people who don't, and for some reason I've always been one of those to say, 'Hey, let's flip over that rock.'

Gillian Jacobs

I would love it if 'Community' could have a trajectory like '30 Rock' and choose when to go out.

James Daly

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

Jake Shimabukuro

Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.

Jam Master Jay

There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it.

Jack White

The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today

Jean Ziegler

The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance.

Gherman Titov

The Retrofire rockets seem to be responding well

GG Allin

My body is the rock and roll temple and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people whether they like it or not

Jim DeRogatis

Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.

Jim Davis

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

Hannah Kearney

I watch my favorite shows-The Walking Dead, The Office, 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation-on Netflix to unwind. Actually, I eat most of my meals while watching Netflix. It's like my companion.

Hank Azaria

I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

Frank Zappa

Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.

Frank Zappa

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

Jim Butcher

I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.

Idris Elba

In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!