Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Buffett

I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.

Elvis Presley

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

Elaine Stritch

Everybody's got a sack of rocks.

John Bytheway

Build on the rock before you hit rock bottom!

Joan Cusack

As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because you're trying to create an identity; you look to others to model.

Lou Reed

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

Lou Reed

My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

Lou Reed

My God is rock'n'roll.

Manuel Puig

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

Manuel Puig

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

T. S. Eliot

Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

T. S. Eliot

The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

Suzy Bogguss

You can drink out of Lincoln's nose. They got the Hard Rock t-shirts. They got Elvis, too.

Suzi Quatro

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

Taylor Hackford

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

Ray Manzarek

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

Ray Manzarek

You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors.

Ray Davies

The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

Ray Davies

When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

Thomas Jefferson

In matters of principal stand like a rock.

Rick Rubin

In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didnt get to when I was younger.

Rick Rubin

Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it was done well. So energetically, again I felt like it was in line with punk rock and maybe hard rock, more than it was in line with R&B, which I never really liked.

Trey Anastasio

I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.

Trey Parker

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

Tracy Morgan

I love 30 Rock because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.

Vanessa Hudgens

I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!

Robin Gibb

I don't like rock opera with back beats.

Rob Sheffield

The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

Rob Sheffield

Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.

Richard Paul Evans

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

Richelle Mead

You used your power to toss one rock at me?" he exclaimed, an almost comic note of incredulity in his voice. "On the contrary," I heard Dorian say pleasantly. "I didn't use magic for that. I just threw it.

Richard Baxter

'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.

Victor Hugo

So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.