Rocks Quotes · Page 42

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

— Cass McCombs

Soft rock music isn’t rock, and it ain’t music. It’s just soft.

— George Carlin

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

— Alice Walker

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

— Marian Wright Edelman

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

— Billy Joel

I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on.

— John Belushi

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee.

— Augustus Toplady

Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.

— Billy Joel

Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation

— Nelson Mandela

My mom used to send me articles about how older virgins are considered good luck in Mexico.

— LIZ

Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

— Ian Anderson

and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret…

— Douglas Adams

I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.

— Travis Barker

There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it.

— Jam Master Jay

CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the…

— Chris Stein

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

— Rumi

The more people I meet, the farther out of my own little world I go, the more I see that we are…

— Susan Powter

I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me…

— John Hiatt

I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for 30 Rock. Some people think were old friends from Second City days.…

— Judah Friedlander

I was really crying the morning after the indication. However I am over that now. Nevertheless, I am proud for it to…

— Dave Wakeling

I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way.…

— Mark Lawrence

You could be a Green Beret and a kid could jump out from behind a building and hit you with a rock.…

— Ice T

My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock,…

— Peter Greenaway

Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band…

— Jay McInerney

True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that…

— Amy Harmon

I'm a rock climber. I really specialize in doing first ascents, and finding new routes outside, as opposed to doing competitions. I…

— Chris Sharma

To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which…

— James Hutton

Good rock 'n' roll is something that makes you feel alive. It's something that's human, and I think that most music today…

— Lester Bangs

Kami said, "I want you to go in there and vamp that receptionist." "What?" Ash said blankly. "You know," Kami said. "Dazzle…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A…

— Naomi Ragen

The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful;…

— Anonymous

Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

— Malcolm X

My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.

— Rodney Dangerfield

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.

— Cynthia Lewis

Instagram rocks. I love it, and so do the youth I work with and study.

— Rachel Simmons

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

— Kid Rock

“It's common knowledge that shiny rocks are preferred among human females.”

— Melissa Landers

It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.

— Steven Adler