Rocks Quotes · Page 21

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

— Carl Perkins

All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

— Grace Slick

Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made.

— Jerry Lee Lewis

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

— Charlie Watts

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

— Patti Smith

Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

— Dee Dee Ramone

Without music the world will still turn, but it won't rock.

— Fran Drescher

I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.

— Jonathan Davis

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of…

— Carrie Brownstein

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder,…

— Dave Grohl

So God made girls... God made girls... He stood back and told the boys, I'm 'bout to rock your world...

— RaeLynn

Everything's immediately diminished. That's why there's no real rock stars anymore. People are too accessible.

— Matthew Healy

The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen.

— Lancelot Andrewes

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.

— Noel Gallagher

What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose…

— Ezra Furman

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

— Walter Savage Landor

There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central…

— Michael Arrington

I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra…

— Anna Kendrick

A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you…

— Elizabeth Taylor

It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven…

— John Edensor Littlewood

Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality,…

— Billy Corgan

I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded…

— Ted Nugent

I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's…

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there…

— Agostino Scilla

I myself am a product of the 60s; I centered my life around sex, drugs and rock and roll until I hit…

— Phil Robertson

What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in:…

— James Sallis

The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain.…

— Madeleine L'Engle

But there would be no confrontation the next day. And for Tommy Williams, there would be no school, either. Because the moment…

— Liz Kessler

I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned…

— Elvis Costello

On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than…

— Richard Dawkins

My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left…

— Kathleen Hanna

You don't throw rocks at a man with a machine gun!

— Roddy Piper

Black Girls rock because we have no other choice.

— Iyanla Vanzant

My father has been a rock for me every since.

— Andrew Sullivan

Thankfully I have an ecosystem of in-laws, parents and husband, who are my rocks.

— Chanda Kochhar

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

— Neil Armstrong

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

— Billy Joel

I was always concerned with making cool-sounding rock records.

— A.C. Newman

Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.

— David Lee Roth