Rocks Quotes - Page 64

Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.

Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.

It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.

If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!

Careful listening to current country and western and rock music with the help of an interpreter for coded phrases shows that young people are hearing a constant stream of messages about getting high, feeling good, going on trips, and using drugs of all kinds with all methods.

The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just doesn't fit.

My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural.

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.

Live every week like it's shark week.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

Towards the end of the seventies pop was gaining the momentum and respectability was very high with groups like Yes and Queen who were making "classical" rock records. They were also bringing in big bucks. So the eighties became the "bottom line" decade.