Rocks Quotes · Page 29

When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock.

— Tad Williams

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

— Gary Cole

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.

— Bruce Dickinson

Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

— Brian Chippendale

You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation. I go to work.

— Kool Moe Dee

The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...

— Keith Richards

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

— Nick Carter

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

— Robert Plant

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just…

— Liz Phair

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.

— Anthony Kiedis

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on…

— Sara Zarr

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

— Ritchie Blackmore

I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks…

— Hamish Bowles

The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.

— Peter S. Beagle

Hey, rock dude, are you destroying the house? Causing mayhem? Who’s a ferocious gargoyle? Stoney’s a ferocious gargoyle.

— Devon Monk

Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in…

— Russell Simmons

The original concept of rock and roll... was supposed to be this young angst with mistakes and all. Four or five guys…

— Peter Frampton

When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my…

— Gotye

That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems,…

— Ace Frehley

Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as…

— Carl Sandburg

As long as Elton John can bring forth one performance per album on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' the…

— Jon Landau

One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profitable. My advice to them: Put…

— Jon Landau

I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. I’m here for two days in New York; I leave in…

— Karl Lagerfeld

Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had…

— Jack Kerouac

I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was…

— Al Yankovic

Did the Pilgrims on the Mayflower sit around Plymouth Rock waiting for a return trip? They came here to settle. And that's…

— Buzz Aldrin

Let me tell you, though - there’s a huge difference between Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. They’re not even close to the same. In…

— Chris Horner

Licensing is how indie rock people make a living these days, so whatever about that. But I want good films and good…

— Justin Vernon

It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Sometimes I feel like a tree on a hill, at the place where all the wind blows and the hail hits the…

— Nancy E. Turner

I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in…

— Olaf Stapledon

Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.

— Billy Corgan

This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.

— John Mellencamp

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

— Stephen Hawking

I was bangin’ 7 gram rocks and finishing them because that’s how I roll

— Charlie Sheen

Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.

— Dave Grohl

What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?

— Pete Wentz

Leave no stone unturned in your quest to disrupt a rock garden.

— Demetri Martin

What am I drinking? NyQuil on the rocks, for when you're feeling sick but sociable.

— Mitch Hedberg