Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Donahue

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

Peter S. Beagle

The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.

Peter Noone

I'm spoiled - in all ways. I've been in a rock 'n' roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different.

Peter Hook

We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.

Kevin Hart

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

Kevin Hart

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

Henry Rollins

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Henry Rollins

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

Henry Rollins

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

Henry Rollins

Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.

Henry Rollins

If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.'

Henry Rollins

Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down.

Henry Rollins

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

Henry Rollins

Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

With love, even the rocks will open.

Nancy Sinatra

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

Miles Davis

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

Joseph Addison

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

Jose Gonzalez

It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.

Jordan Rudess

Affectors Harmagedon is a solid blast of PROG metal complete with burning solos, odd time signatures, orchestral highlights, and Rock riffs that will tear your head off! Excited that I could be a part of this album!

Jonny Greenwood

Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.

Jonny Greenwood

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Jonny Lang

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

Joni Mitchell

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

Kevin Brockmeier

You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground.

Lupe Fiasco

I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.

Luis Miguel

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.

John Ambrose Fleming

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.

John Anderson

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

Martin Scorsese

Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. . . But then we uncovered another, deeper level, the history behind rock and R&B, the music behind our music. All roads led to the source, which was the blues.

Lee Ann Womack

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences

Johnny Depp

It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief.

James Iha

After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.