Rocks Quotes - Page 4

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.

One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.

We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

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

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.

I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

It's gonna be okay, no matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole. You must stand where you can see the man as he treads the entire path that leads from the cradle to the grave - now crossing the plain, now climbing the steeps, now passing through pleasant fields, now wending his way with difficulty between rugged rocks - tempted, tried, tested, triumphant.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.