Rock Quotes
3328 Rock quotes by 1995 unique authors
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock…
— George Steiner
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The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?...We are trying…
— Robert Plant
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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt…
— Patti Smith
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During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad…
— Florence King
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Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock…
— Carl Sandburg
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Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I was surprised they…
— Paul Simon
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Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt…
— Conor Oberst
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You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have…
— Jimmy Webb
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Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave…
— James A. Baldwin
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Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel, a…
— Naomi Ragen
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In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.
— Lin Brehmer
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Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final…
— Augusten Burroughs
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There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music.
— Miranda Lambert
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Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding…
— Arthur Miller
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I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!
— Muhammad Ali
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For years The National has been labeled as a gloomy kind of rock bandI think mostly because of Matt’s deep baritone voice, which even if…
— Bryce Dessner
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The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.
— Izzy Stradlin
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Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet, in the same…
— Jeff Gannon
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I enjoy creating all types of music and I take inspiration from everything around me. Its not about trends or what’s fashionably popular, its about…
— Unknown Author
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If you take guns away from legal gun owners then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist…
— Bruce Willis
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Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing mountains here. I'm…
— Alex Pettyfer
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I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just…
— Gerard Butler
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I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends…
— Kristen Bell
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Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.
— Brad Paisley
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I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big…
— Brad Paisley
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