Rocks Quotes - Page 56

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.

For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.

So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

Now what happens?" asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone." "You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?

Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.

Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.

If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to see people up there that have just started playing. That's something that had gotten lost. I think that's why there are so many great girl punk rock bands now. It's like you have to make up your own rules because the old rules don't apply. You just have to start with what you have.

I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.

A lot of the physical flirtation with fear I did early on in my career, when I was a much younger person - stuff I wouldn't do now. But I was very interested in the mechanics of risk and fear in those days. And I found out fear pretty much always feels the same, whether it's doing a rock climb or speaking in front of an audience.

Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

What is interesting, as well, is how much power homicide detectives have and how much respect. They are kind of rock stars, especially in New York. There are not that many of them.

People throw rocks at things that shine.

I love all the '90s kind of grunge, and I love classic rock: That's where the spectrum lies.

As a member of Fleetwood Mac, for two weeks I was still working at the restaurant because I'd given them notice. I didn't just want to walk in there and say, "'I'm going to be a famous rock star so I quit and I never liked your food anyway".

Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.

There is very little genuine rock and roll out there at the moment - but Steve Conte has hit the nail on the head with this one!