Rocks Quotes · Page 75

I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It can and will be a more powerful sound but the orchestra has far more potential for expressive power. When I hear…

— Glenn Branca

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly…

— Lou Reed

I think most people start rock bands in their early twenties or teens, but I was almost thirty at the time when…

— Matt Berninger

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

— Thomas Friedman

I know life sometimes can get tough! And I know life sometimes can be a drag! But people, we have been given…

— Paul Stanley

Rock stars hawking Diet Cokes--are demons set loose on the Earth to lower the standards for the perfect & holy children of God!

— Bill Hicks

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I…

— Travis Barker

I thought the idea Jim [Carrey] had, which was to do a comedic version of movies like The Hand That Rocks The…

— Judd Apatow

I studied what the Germans call the Naturwissenschaften, the natural sciences. Everything from biology to geology. How the clouds are formed, how…

— Vaclav Smil

I'm fascinated with the attitude of younger rock bands, even ones that are making money at it. I don't ever hear them…

— Travis Morrison

It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions'…

— Brian May

When Christian pushes into the brick wall of the building catty-corner to the rear of BB&B—first left on the Dark Zone side—and…

— Karen Marie Moning

I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.

— Ethan Suplee

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

— Emily Haines

The road is a fun place, and it's a great place to get out there and explore the country. But as far…

— Scotty McCreery

It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional…

— Malcolm Gladwell

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

— Van Morrison

Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

— The Edge

I'd...bet enthusiasm for 'ethnic cleansing' will wane if only sticks and rocks are available for the warring parties.

— Bill Hicks

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

— Agostino Scilla

Tony Iommi - the undisputed king of demonic heavy rock riffs. In this area, no one had never surpassed him.

— Ozzy Osbourne

I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've…

— Elle King

Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

You'd think he'd ran out off rocks," I muttered

— Rick Riordan

I'm also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the…

— Bill Mumy

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of…

— David McCord

I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

— Knut Hamsun

Any live venue where there is alcohol served and it's past midnight there is gonna be fights. It doesn't matter if it's…

— Slaine

She remembered when they were kids and he'd caught the rock that the bullies had thrown at her. At six, she'd considered…

— C.C. Hunter

I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.

— Bon Scott

The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers…

— Thomas Jefferson

You have a lot of educating to do hip-hop wise in Europe. When you tour, when you go out there, most of…

— K-Maro

I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.

— Paris Hilton

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

— Bonnie Raitt

I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple,…

— Janis Joplin

I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

— Mercedes Lackey

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

— Georgie Fame

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

— Joe Eszterhas