Rocks Quotes - Page 135

Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do.

I saw the movie Sid & Nancy. It was a pretty good movie. It didn't really make me a punk rock fan. But anything that's new, as long as it's good I enjoy it.

Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.

Rock music is stronger than sports. That's why. Rock rules. Around the world, who's more famous: Willie Mays or Paul McCartney?

I am more of a rock guy than I am a blues guy. People get the idea that I am a dyed in the wool blues cat, but I rock out when I do my show you know that.

I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to throw rocks at me, they're going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.

Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages.

Recognize a rock 'n' roller for what he is, which is a damned lucky guy not to have to work for a living.

Wait." "So what am I supposed to do now?" "You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey." (222-223)

I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and Oasis, and all of those really great bands that were of a certain style. If I'd really been smart and commercially minded, I would have just got myself a blazer and some Stay Press and some Fred Perry tops, and just gone out and tried to do it like everyone else. Instead, I did this ridiculous thing of trying to do this music.

So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

The fifth and by far the most important reason is that stoning is literally a means of crushing the murderer's head by means of a rock, which is symbolic of God. This is analogous to the crushing of the head of the serpent in Genesis 3:15. This symbolism testifies to the final victory of God over all the hosts of Satan. Stoning is therefore integral to the commandment against murder.

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.

Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.

I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.

I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.