Rocks Quotes · Page 26

You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.

— Billy Joel

“When the world throws rocks at you, turn them into diamonds.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't want to ever be a quote-unquote rock star. I want to just be me.

— Amy Lee

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

— Tom Stoppard

The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.

— Eric Burdon

I want people who are going to rock out for the duration.

— Torae

I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.

— Kid Rock

Let me guess,' Ian said in a voice like ice. 'You fell on a rock.

— Stephenie Meyer

Everything needs a mirror to see what to change and what to love in itself, even a rock or a duck, everything!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

— Norman Granz

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,…

— William Shakespeare

Our aim is to open access to a wealth of previously unexplored mineral resources on lifeless rocks hurling through space, without damaging…

— Etienne Schneider

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Hollywood's racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It's like - we like you, Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa.

— Chris Rock

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

For all of those who wanna profile and pose Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone.

— Prodigy

[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the…

— Hunter S. Thompson

There's nothing cooler than a good fitting, worn-in pair of Wrangler jeans, so it's great that with the new Retro line, my…

— Jason Aldean

Why are you putting on lip gloss, my daughter?” Dad asked. “Trip to the library? Trip to the nunnery? I hear the…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I learned from the guys before me - Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These…

— Kevin Hart

Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons,…

— Erma Bombeck

God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior…

— Bob Riley

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs,…

— Bruce Cockburn

Living's heavy work, but off to one side, the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed…

— Natalie Babbitt

I'm just so happy and proud of everybody and what everybody's doing. From Curren$y doing decent numbers with the independent, digital release;…

— Wale

I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't…

— Andrew Dice Clay

George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered…

— Brian May

“A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection,…

— Martha Stout

If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to…

— Tobi Vail

Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine,…

— Lawrence Weiner

He loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will…

— Nick Hornby

But, as Douglas E Harding has pointed out, we tend to think of this planet as a life-infested rock, which is as…

— Alan Watts

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

— Gene Simmons

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

— Jerry Hall

A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.

— Aleksis Kivi

Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else.

— Walter Martin

It's wild how chefs have become like rock stars.

— Todd English

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

— David Bowie

America was founded by people who believe that God is their Rock of safety.

— Ronald Reagan

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

— Sam Shepard