Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elton John

Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything.

Elton John

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

Elton John

I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.

Gary Kemp

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

Chris Henderson

I don't see us as rock 'n' roll veterans. Aerosmith, ZZ Top, those are veterans.

Adam Clayton

I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

Chad Kroeger

We were a little scared of using piano. We just didn't think it was very rock and roll.

Voters are saying we need someone there who's not going to rock the boat.

Henry Spencer

Solid-fuel rockets can't easily be shut down on command.

Ronnie Spector

When we started, we didn't do it for the money, we didn't do it to be packaged, all we wanted to do was rock 'n' roll, to have fun, and we did.

Cyndi Lauper

People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.

David Lee Roth

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

David Lee Roth

Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.

David Lee Roth

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

David Letterman

I wouldn't give my troubles to a monkey on a rock.

David Bowie

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

David Bowie

Rock's always been the devil's music.

David Bowie

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

Dave Grohl

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

Billy Graham

Any other foundation will fail, but Christ is a sure and steady rock to build your life on.

Dante Alighieri

So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.

Dan Fogelberg

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

Dar Williams

Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.

Cliff Richard

Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

Courtney Love

In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.

Courtney Love

I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.

Courtney Love

I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it.

Courtney Love

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

Courtney Love

I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.

Ray Davies

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band.