Rocks Quotes · Page 47

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

— Frank Zappa

Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.

— Grace Slick

You're either slangin' crack rock, or you got a wicked jumpshot...

— The Notorious B.I.G

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

— John Dryden

Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.

— Ringo Starr

I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist.

— Tara Reid

I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!

— Billy Corgan

I didn't know if Skynyrd fans were going to throw rocks at me or eggs or what.

— Johnny Van Zant

When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock

— John B. Keane

I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just…

— Brian Johnson

Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance…

— Van Morrison

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really…

— Marc Webb

It is incredible to me that my Twitter feed is a source of 'news' for every rock news outlet around the world.

— Sebastian Bach

My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

— Emily Bronte

Bess had become the ocean, always breaking against the rocks but never staying broken. Her love was the ocean, too, endless and…

— Megan Hart

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird.…

— Bjork

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the…

— Anna Sui

A property is that which not at all Can be disjoined and severed from a thing Without a fatal dissolution: such, Weight…

— Lucretius

I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or…

— Rick Derringer

I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't…

— Eoin Colfer

I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie…

— Trish Stratus

[S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I’m making this music for her, when if I could, I would…

— Rachel Cohn

I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I know that my job is to perform, it wouldn't be a very interesting show if I just came out one day…

— Jon Stewart

Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that…

— Carl Sagan

There is no sin worse in life than being boring--and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do. I…

— Paris Hilton

Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the…

— Jack Handey

On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever…

— Tobias Smollett

As he looked up at the clouds or down at the precipice, he realized that this woman was the most important thing…

— Paulo Coelho

When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures…

— John McPhee

The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts;…

— Samuel Johnson

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

— Evan Dando

I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.

— Courtney Love

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

— Debbie Harry

It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll

— Brian Cox

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

— Annette Funicello

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

— Louis Armstrong

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

— Thomas Friedman

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

— Ray Davies