Rocks Quotes - Page 59

To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude

How many times can a rock star go over the top on drugs? How many times can a rock star be unfaithful to his old lady? It is really fu**ing boring, and that is what they do over and over and over. They just print the same sh*t.

The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.

When I was younger I knew I could do anything - I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea - I'd rather be a rock star.

The Anthropocene essentially would be the time of human influence on the planet. That's controversial though, because geology is a retrospective discipline. The rocks of the Anthropocene haven't been deposited yet, really.

I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that its extremely predictable, its a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and theres a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.

I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.

I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.

James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

Nobody likes to hear a f**king rock star talk about his problems

Butforme, theAlps and their peoplewerealikebeautiful in their snow, and their humanity; and I wanted, neither for them nor myself, sight of any thrones in heaven but the rocks, or of any spirits in heaven but the clouds.

The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.