Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Carter

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

Edward Weston

To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation.

Holly Johnson

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Hermann Oberth

If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder.

Kurt Tucholsky

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.

Liberty Ross

Everyone lives under their rocks in L.A., so it takes a long time to find your lane.

Gary Clark, Jr.

I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I play music. It's natural for me to go with what I feel. If I didn't let that other stuff out and stuck to a certain format, I would feel like I was missing out on something. I'm just enjoying my ride and being who I am.

Gary Cherone

Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.

Gary Cherone

Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

Jon Landau

The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous extensions of their approach, not radical redefinitions, as has so often been the case with the Beatles.

Jon Landau

The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.

Jon Landau

The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.

Jon Landau

As long as Elton John can bring forth one performance per album on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' the chance remains that he will become something more than the great entertainer he already is and go on to make a lasting contribution to rock.

Jon Landau

On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins.

Jon Landau

'Call Me' is not an exceptional Al Green album, but it is as solid as a rock at its center.

Johnny Winter

Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.

Johnny Winter

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll

Jon Anderson

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

Jon Bon Jovi

Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll.

Johnny Thunders

I take smack because I enjoy it. I enjoy all it makes me feel. I don't do it to be in with the in crowd. I can rock out with it.

John Coltrane

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

The elk rut is one of the most spectacular wildlife opportunities in the Rocky Mountains.

Matt Tong

I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all.

Maximilien Robespierre

Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

Mark Skousen

Gold is as steady as a rock, a standardbearer by which all currencies can be accurately measured.

Matisyahu

The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.

Matt Berninger

I actually don't go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.

Mary Timony

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

Pablo Casals

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

Pablo Neruda

I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.” - Verb.