Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Springsteen

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

Bruce Springsteen

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

Bruce Springsteen

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

Bruce Springsteen

A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.

Brenda Lee

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

Brendan Fraser

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in

Brendan Fraser

I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

Brad Paisley

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock

Brad Paisley

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.

Charles Bukowski

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

Avril Lavigne

I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female singers. I like Nirvana, Green Day, System Of A Down. I also like punk rock, and I love bands like Coldplay.

Bart Chilton

I would pale in comparison to rock and rollers with my haircut. I would be a lightweight.

Banksy

Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray that, or 'Climax,' for that matter. But for me, it was the most adventurous thing I could have done at that exact moment.

Bob Dylan

I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.

Bob Dylan

I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)

Bob Dylan

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

Billy Childish

I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.

Billy Bragg

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

Billy Corgan

Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.

Billy Corgan

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

Billy Corgan

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

Billy Corgan

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

Bon Scott

Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?

Bon Scott

I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.

Bruce Dickinson

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.

Arjun Rampal

I've been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it 'Rock on!' 'The Last Lear' or 'Raajneeti,' directors started working in a different way.

Antonin Scalia

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

Brooke Burke

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

Bridget Hall

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

Eckhart Tolle

What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light.

Denis Leary

When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.

Denis Leary

Julieanne Smolinksi has a history in rock journalism and she's a huge rock 'n' roll fan, and she was a huge fan of Ava (Elaine Hendrix) and Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) and of the actresses. I was really lucky to get her, in between seasons on Grace and Frankie.