Rocks Quotes · Page 30

Some of the best rock shows I ever saw were those appealing to all your senses.

— David Cook

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

— Bono

The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.

— Frank Zappa

I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

— Rufus Wainwright

Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper.

— Allison Brennan

Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.

— Ben Dreyfuss

“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.” -Indian Proverb”

— Angela Roquet

I'm not trying to ally myself with the rock stars of the universe.

— Sylvie Simmons

“When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?”

— William Shakespeare

There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then…

— Jack Black

Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you will discover He is the Rock at the bottom.

— Tony Evans

I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.

— Ian Astbury

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

— Billy Corgan

If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in…

— Vivian Campbell

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction…

— David Bowie

I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.

— Dave Grohl

Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo,…

— John Frusciante

In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like…

— Thomas Frank

The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It…

— Matt Groening

Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in…

— Arthur Miller

I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the…

— Sandra Bernhard

When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late…

— Van Morrison

I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor…

— Edgar Winter

You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in…

— James Wolk

I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could…

— Craig Finn

Surely as a man may say of a rock--nothing more quiet, because it is never stirred; and yet nothing more unquiet, because…

— Edward Reynolds

I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really…

— Creed Bratton

It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate…

— Toby Hemenway

The Domino Effect could stand for anything. It could be just the simple game of the domino rocks falling off one after…

— Leo Lionni

Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things…

— John Playfair

Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted…

— Peter Mayle

I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.

— Ellsworth Kelly

Why are my arms so weak? It's like I did that push-up last year for nothing!

— Tina Fey

Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.

— Jerry Garcia

“If there is no snake at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road.”

— Andre Dubus III

You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

— Chris Martin

You can't kill rock and roll without a silver bullet because she's a werewolf.

— Anthony Langston

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

— Alessandro Nivola

Good rock music always tends to be around.

— Dave Davies