Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katie Aselton

It's not rocket science to make a movie.

Kurt Cobain

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

Kurt Cobain

I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.

Kurt Cobain

The future of rock belongs to women.

Kurt Cobain

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

Kurt Cobain

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

Ketch Secor

It's true that bluegrass is a virtuosic form and asks that of its performer. Old-time music is older rawer and purer. It's less stylized. We don't solo. Well sometimes we do, but it's different it has more to do with rock-and-roll than bluegrass does.

Kesha

People say that rock 'n' roll is dead, and I am making it my mission to resurrect it. I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.

Orson Welles

I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out

This is mammoth. The prosecutors in Little Rock are not up to speed on the (Steele) case.

Eric Avery

I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for the best, but what is merely germ, what blossom and what fruit I do not know.

Joe Walsh

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.

John C. McGinley

You go see 'Timothy Green,' and tell me if it doesn't rock your world. I loved it. I loved every frame of it.

James Surowiecki

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

Emily Carr

As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.

Emily Bronte

My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

Ellsworth Kelly

I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.

Tony Blair

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Tom Petty

My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.

Tom Petty

Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.

Simone de Beauvoir

the Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints ...

Rick Riordan

We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world?

Tim Heidecker

A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar and play the chords," just because it's such a lame image. It's not rock'n'roll at all to be sitting behind a guitar.

Ringo Starr

I am the best rock drummer on the planet.

Ringo Starr

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Ringo Starr

Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Lenny Kravitz

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

Lenny Kravitz

You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.

Scott Ian

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

Sibel Edmonds

We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.

Phil Collen

It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released upon the masses in 2012.