Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Corr

To us, it's vey natural. Initially, it sounded kind of strange to people, because it is different to put traditional Irish music in a pop and rock mode. But they get used to it -- it is our sound.

Afrika Bambaataa

Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.

Afrika Bambaataa

There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.

Afrika Bambaataa

Say planet rock, it's a sure shot.

Abbie Hoffman

Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?

Adrian Mitchell

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

Adam Levine

I don't know if it's possible to live the rock'n'roll lifestyle and still be romantic.

Andy Lally

He's been doing this forever, over and over. He's one of the rocks on the team.

Alison Brie

30 Rock' is probably one of my favorite shows. It's just joke after joke after joke.

Alice Sebold

but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.

Alice Walker

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

Alice Cooper

Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented

Alice Cooper

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

Alice Cooper

All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.

Alice Cooper

Rock should never be in bed with politics.

Anne Lamott

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

Ann Wilson

Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

Andy Lau

I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.

Crystal Reed

My personal style is eclectic, I would say. I always like to mix and match things. Uh, but the thing is that it changes every single day. So if I'm feeling you know a little more rebellious, one day I may dress a little more punk rock. But most of the time I say, pretty consistently, I'm feminine.

Conor Oberst

I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

Alex Turner

Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive.

Alex Lifeson

Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me over.

Drake Bell

I like all like classic rock bands like The Beatles and The Who and stuff and Led Zeppelin so I kinda dress like that. Kinda retro I guess. Well not retro but, like tight. I don't know. Like just jeans and shirts. I don't know. Kinda rock and roll I guess.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Douglas Booth

I got to be about 13 and everyone started playing guitars and being in rock bands. There was no place for me with my trumpet and I wasn't cool anymore. Although now if I played the trumpet it would be the coolest thing in the world.

Duke Ellington

The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the old slave chants and up through the blues, the jazz, and up through rock. And it's all got the African pulse.

Doris Day

If there is a heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.

Dwayne Johnson

The jabroni beating, pie eating, trail-blazin', eyebrow raisin', all around, smack it down People's Champ, The Rock!

Delmore Schwartz

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Debbie Harry

That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

Chuck Palahniuk

In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

Chuck Eddy

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

Chuck Klosterman

We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.