Rocks Quotes - Page 78

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

Im also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.

We're gonna rock around the clock.

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking round.

American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.

Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.

Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.

There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.

I'm definitely really into rock music, and I feel like that is where my heart is.

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

I've been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it 'Rock on!' 'The Last Lear' or 'Raajneeti,' directors started working in a different way.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

A rock star never gets old!