Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only. — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in… — Vivian Campbell Copy Share Image
I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars. — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist. — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I watch my favorite shows-The Walking Dead, The Office, 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation-on Netflix to unwind. Actually, I eat most… — Hannah Kearney Copy Share Image
Yeah? Rock 'n' Roll is fast, you know. If all goes according to plan I could be in rehab next thursday. Tuesday… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the… — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
The various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the 'social' - that is the public, cooperative, societal -… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock,… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then… — Kelly Hogan Copy Share Image
He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp.… — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
The ultimate replacement for any of the false gods that are a part of our lives is a deep and abiding love… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me. — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens." — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen. — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder,… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock… — Cass Elliot Copy Share Image
I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
So God made girls... God made girls... He stood back and told the boys, I'm 'bout to rock your world... — RaeLynn Copy Share Image
Everything's immediately diminished. That's why there's no real rock stars anymore. People are too accessible. — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
If you're rolling over rocks and stuff and you have a bigger wheel, it's going to stay out of the holes -… — Aaron Gwin Copy Share Image
I was banging seven-gram rocks, because that’s how I roll. I have one speed, I have one gear: Go. — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
