Quotes about rock
rocks might sober
Craig Ferguson Sober alkies are often asked: When did you hit rock bottom? but a more informed question might be: How many times did you hit rock bottom?
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Craig Ferguson From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?
rocks balls looks
Brian Cox Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.
rocks rock-n-roll geek
Brian Cox No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll
rocks errors giving
Bret Michaels I want to tell the story. Mostly, when you see rock movies, it has to be this over-the-top thing. I want to give people a Bret Michaels movie where they see that my life is a comedy of errors. I also want to show my fans how to get through the kind of troubles that would leave most people flat on the floor.
rocks rock-n-roll deals
Bret Easton Ellis Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.
rocks glam-rock two
Brandi Carlile My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.
rocks parent days-off
Boris Becker I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.
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Bootsy Collins I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.
rocks rock-and-roll people
Bobby Vinton I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.
rocks jail records
Bobby Vinton I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.
rocks missing done
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.
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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)
rocks rock-and-roll drug
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.
rocks blue years
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.
rocks racism racist
Billy Bragg I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
rocks volcanoes earth
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.
rocks band world
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.
rock-and-roll rocks wells
Billy Corgan Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.
rocks records punk
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.
rocks today rock-n-roll
Bon Scott Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?
rock-and-roll australia rocks
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.
rocks want rock-n-roll
Bruce Dickinson If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.
rocks records littles
Billie Joe Armstrong To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
rocks people green
Billie Joe Armstrong For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
rocks want dirt
Billie Joe Armstrong I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else
rocks clubs down-and
Billie Joe Armstrong Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
rocks punk mainstream
Billie Joe Armstrong A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
rock-and-roll rocks years
Billie Joe Armstrong I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.
rocks rock-and-roll desire
Billy Bob Thornton If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for.
rock-and-roll band slow-down
Bill Haley When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.
rocks progress president
Charles Portis It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.