Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Taylor

I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable...Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way.

Bernie Worrell

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Bruce Springsteen

I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

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.

Paul Westerberg

We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension.

Paul Westerberg

I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.

Paul Westerberg

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

Paul Westerberg

A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

Mel Brooks

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.

Marty Stuart

Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.

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.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

Pete Wentz

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will,

Pete Townshend

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

Pete Townshend

No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.

Pete Townshend

Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous.

Pete Townshend

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'

Pete Townshend

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

Peter Marshall

You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sand banks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.

Pope Benedict XVI

Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion

Mick Ralphs

I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.

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.

Scott Ian

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

Sibel Edmonds

We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.

Taylor Swift

People throw rocks at things that shine.

Tara Reid

I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist.

Kate Smith

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

Larry Wilcox

Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.

Phil Collen

It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released upon the masses in 2012.