The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top.… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Between the stars in the sky and the rocks on the ground, rock seem like the better one, although the stars are… — Korean Drama Copy Share Image
I like to have a connection with the elements and the earth. Rock is the skin of the planet, and you can… — Fred Nicole Copy Share Image
The shower is my time to open up my operatic chops, because of the enormous echo. You sound five times as big… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
What really matters when facing a challenge? What matters is learning. You want to test yourself, throw yourself into something outside your… — Arno Hintjens Copy Share Image
I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. I’m here for two days in New York; I leave in… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profitable. My advice to them: Put… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
As long as Elton John can bring forth one performance per album on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' the… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo,… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in… — James Wolk Copy Share Image
Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world?… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The Church is built on the rock of Peter, and he who eats the Lamb outside this holy dwelling is reprobate ..… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
Capricorn was one of the homes of the Southern rock movement with the Allman Brothers and Charlie Daniels and the Marshall Tucker… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Evolution does not isolate us from the rest of the Kosmos, it unites us with the rest of the Kosmos: the same… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
The Stones were always exemplary of one of the best of all rock qualities: tightness. They have always been economical, the opposite… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image