Rocks Quotes · Page 79

There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on…

— Barbara Kingsolver

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of…

— Bono

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

— Abbie Hoffman

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have…

— Justin Sane

Potty mouth, rock star, at the top and still tryna climb, Drop the top sit back recline

— French Montana

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock…

— Patti Smith

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

— Travis Barker

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

— John Updike

You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging…

— Jack White

When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock,…

— Isaac Asimov

And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow.…

— Chuck Klosterman

It is that dream we carry that something miraculous will happen that it must happen - that time will open that the…

— Olav H. Hauge

Paul McCartney is a genius ... Paul married Rock & Roll to beauty, and forever raised the bar for composers, musicians, and…

— Alec Baldwin

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton…

— Brandi Carlile

I feel like people are starting to come around and embrace rock. Because I guess they're getting sick of the stale sounds…

— Jason Reece

Love is as varied and unpredictable as the rain is: it comes in constant summer drizzles, or sudden, unforseen storms that make…

— Susan Fletcher

Licensing is how indie rock people make a living these days, so whatever about that. But I want good films and good…

— Justin Vernon

Did the Pilgrims on the Mayflower sit around Plymouth Rock waiting for a return trip? They came here to settle. And that's…

— Buzz Aldrin

“Sometimes I feel like a tree on a hill, at the place where all the wind blows and the hail hits the…

— Nancy E. Turner

It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in…

— Olaf Stapledon

Surely as a man may say of a rock--nothing more quiet, because it is never stirred; and yet nothing more unquiet, because…

— Edward Reynolds

I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really…

— Creed Bratton

It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star!

— Tommy Hilfiger

I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world.

— Dahlia Lithwick

I didn't come here to run for President. I really just came here to play rock and roll.

— Katy Perry

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put…

— LZ Granderson

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a…

— Kate Moss

You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

— Steve Vai

Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

— Gautama Buddha

I'm not a precious text protector, or anything like that, you know, because it's a much more vital form than that. You…

— William Monahan

That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.

— Stewart Copeland

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They…

— David Baldacci

Being in the movie [School of Rock] was really cool. Sometimes we had to do takes over, but Jack always kept us…

— Miranda Cosgrove

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to…

— Eckhart Tolle

I love to rock, but it's liberating not to always have to keep up with the freight train that is the Old…

— Rhett Miller

You either live under a rock or you walk in the sunshine. That’s pretty much how it goes.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

— James Taylor

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

— Joe Elliott