Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Anthropocene essentially would be the time of human influence on the planet. That's controversial though, because geology is a retrospective discipline.… — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
It's important to realize that everybody who went into country music, and most everybody who went into rock and roll in the… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
What isn’t on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues.… — Michele Norris Copy Share Image
To depend partly upon Christ's righteousness and partly upon our own, is to set one foot upon a. rock and another in… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It's interesting that music in this country... we sort of sold something to America with The Beatles and they sold something back.… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
I was never a singer; I can't play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
When I see 16 year-olds waiting for me, I just want to spank them and give them guitars and tell them to… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
A tree is an aerial garden, a botanical migration from the sea, from those earliest plants, the seaweeds; it is a purchase… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually… — Thomas Hartwell Horne Copy Share Image
The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock… — Wesley Willis Copy Share Image
There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America,… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
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… — Phil Collen Copy Share Image
I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it… — B. J. Chute Copy Share Image
The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society,… — David Amram Copy Share Image
“He steps onto the sidewalk and rocks on the balls of his feet. He looks beautiful standing there, and a familiar ache… — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
I just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived… — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
I have undeniable evidence that many have awakened as a result of my raising hell. Raising hell is SO American rock-and-roll. And… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme… — Kevin Eubanks Copy Share Image
I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist.… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
