Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Wopat

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

Steve Perry

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

Steve Ballmer

The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to be very rock solid, and crisp in execution.

Stephen Hawking

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

Stephan Jenkins

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

Simon Cowell

I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music.

Serj Tankian

With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.

Serj Tankian

With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

Serj Tankian

I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.

Pietro Metastasio

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.

Pope Francis

Let us build our lives of faith on the rock who is Christ.

Rachel Miner

I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

Temple Grandin

In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.

James Patterson

If my life were a corny horror movie, and the heroine was lost and alone, trapped in an underwater cave, what would happen next? If you guessed, “She drops her flashlight, and it hits a rock and breaks, leaving her in utter darkness,” you would be right. But I bet you didn’t guess the part about an attack by a giant octopus.

Stephen Wolfram

Rocks are computationally equivalent to humans.

Stephen Stills

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

Stephenie Meyer

So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the surface of the earth. Too deep to feel the heat of it, but it moved inexorably, changing the very foundations of the world with its advance.

Stephen Colbert

(Rush are) like the JD Salinger of Canadian Prog Rock

Russell Brand

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.

Ruben Blades

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

Tre Cool

I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

Travis Barker

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

Rick Riordan

To business."Tux Dude extended his hand. "I am Prometheus." I was too surprised to shake."The fire-stealer guy?The chained-to-the-rock-with-the-vultures guy?" Prometheus winced. He touched the scratches on his face."Please, don't mention the vultures. But yes, I stole fire from the gods and gave it to your ancestors. In return, the ever merciful Zeus had me chained to a rock and tortured for all eternity.

Rick Derringer

I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people.

Rick Derringer

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

Rick Derringer

Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse.

Rhett Miller

I love to rock, but it's liberating not to always have to keep up with the freight train that is the Old 97's

Rick Wakeman

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.

Trenton Lee Stewart

At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.

Trent Reznor

I didnt ask to save rock, I dont even like rock that much.

Steve Winwood

One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.

Steve Winwood

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.

Steve Vai

You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.