Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lester Bangs

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

Lester Bangs

The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

Lester Bangs

Rock is for everybody; it should be so implicitly anti-elitist that the question of whether somebody's qualified to perform it should never even arise.

Lester Bangs

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

Lester Bangs

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

Joseph Campbell

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

Karen Carpenter

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know?And it was such a turn around, I guess it caught people by surprise.

Karen Bass

Its so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

Juliette Lewis

Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

Julie Kagawa

I've always wanted the IQ of a rock. No, wait. That would be an insult to the rock.

Julianne Hough

Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.

Juliana Hatfield

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

Juice Newton

I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.

Pamela Anderson

It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the merely vulgar seem commonplace.

Kanye West

I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.

Kanye West

I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything. There's certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I'ma go get that. Like, on Christmas I don't want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don't want my credit to look black.

Paul Kantner

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

Paul Kantner

Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

Elaine Stritch

Everybody's got a sack of rocks.

John Bytheway

Build on the rock before you hit rock bottom!

Joan Cusack

As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because you're trying to create an identity; you look to others to model.

Lou Reed

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

Lou Reed

My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

Lou Reed

My God is rock'n'roll.

Jonathan Haidt

People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.

Joe Perry

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

Joan Jett

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'

Geddy Lee

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

Lord Byron

Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

Lord Byron

Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.

Malcolm Gladwell

Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be afraid to meet your maker." Rock, despite being Catholic replied, "My dear Madam, in my faith, we are taught that the Lord is with us always. When my time comes, there will be no need for introductions."

Malcolm Gladwell

The first person who throws the rock is a lot more radical than a hundredth person.By the time the riot has attracted a hundred people, you don't have to be nearly as much of a daredevil or a hothead or committed or any of those things to want to engage in a riot.

Maimonides

It is not unreasonable to assume that the works of God, their existence and preceding non-existence, are the result of His wisdom, but we are unable to understand many of the ways of His Wisdom in His works. On this principle the whole Law of Moses is based; it begins with this principle: "And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good" (Gen. i. 31); and it ends with this principle: "The Rock, perfect is His work" (Deut. xxxii. 4). Note it.