Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.

Jodi Picoult

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

Jodi Picoult

The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.

John Green

But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.

Patti Smith

New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by file sharing, downloading, and Myspace. Rock 'n' roll belongs to the people.

Patti Smith

I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock 'n' roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.

Patti Smith

You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

Patti Smith

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

Patti Smith

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll.

Patti Smith

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

Carly Simon

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

Evan Harris

Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock...

Muriel Rukeyser

The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals, water to sound, fire to form: life flickers uncounted into the supple arms of love.

Moby

I've been making electronic music for twenty some odd years but, because I grew up playing in punk rock bands, when I started touring, I thought in order to be a viable touring musician I had to do it with a band. I would DJ or tour with a full rock band.

Moby

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

Moby

People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.

Moby

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

Moby

If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.

Mike Rowe

I'm allergic to rocks hitting me in the face.

Miguel

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

Kurt Loder

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

Kirk Franklin

God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.

Kirk Hammett

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

Kirk Cameron

I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Rock is much more malleable than ideas.

Ken Hensley

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

Kathleen Hanna

There's comedians who I consider extremely punk rock who I've seen do very political stand up in places where nobody wants to hear that. It's uncomfortable and scary and you realize it's the punkest performance you've ever witnessed.

Kathleen Hanna

Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?

Kathleen Hanna

My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.

Patti Smith

If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!

Patti Smith

Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

Patti Smith

Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

Patti Smith

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.