Rocks Quotes - Page 10

We build the path as we can, rock by rock.

Life has a way of testing our anchors and tempting us to drift. Nevertheless, if our anchors are correctly placed in the rock of our Redeemer, they will hold—no matter the force of the wind, the strength of the tide, or the height of the waves.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.

Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.

You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles.

When all else fails...be a rockstar

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

If you can imagine the one family continuously occupying the same land for 40,000 years or more, using it not just to sustain life but as a place of reverence and worship, where every tree, rock and waterhole had significance, you will get some understanding of the importance of land to indigenous people.

We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is a perspective on human life and our culture that is well worth pondering.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent.

Gravity is measured by the bottom of the foot; we trace the density and texture of the ground through our soles. Standing barefoot on a smooth glacial rock by the sea at sunset, and sensing the warmth of the sun-heated stone through one's soles, is an extraordinarily healing experience, making one part of the eternal cycle of nature. One senses the slow breathing of the earth.

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll

I would rather be a security guard than a rock star.

Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the planet's green carpet, lifeless minerals are weathered from stones or decomposed from organic debris. Plants and microscopic animals eat these dead particles and recast them as living matter. In the soil, matter recrosses the boundary between living and dead; and, as we have seen, boundaries-edges-are where the most interesting and important events occur.

DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk rock would be walking around on the streets the jocks who learned about Punk through Devo would roll down their windows and yell at the Punks: 'HEY, DEVO!!'

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

The more emotion I put in to it the harder I rock.

A coder will be the next rock star.