Quotes About Rock

life is like a rock it hurts and is harder then you think.

le rock' n' roll, c'est un oasis d'adrénaline pour enfants perdus.

But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock.

Among the many ecstatic notices, Robert Christgau, the self-appointed 'dean of American rock critics', put it best, in a review that would still be being quoted when he left the Village Voice twenty-six years later: 'Mick Jagger should fold up his penis and go home.

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

The blood of the guitar was Chuck Berry red.

And then like two people jumping off a rock into water, I guess we both fell helplessly into sleep. I'm not sure which of us gets there first.

Rock is a great master of life. It teaches us this simple philosophy: Stay firm!

But looking back?—my lie to Sabrina? Best. Screw-up. Ever. Thanks for being a witch Sabrina!! You rock! And so do we—me and my brother's best friend. (Skyler and Star.) (Only better.) ('Cause we're real.) Peace. Out.

Her voice echoed and its volume took him by surprise. He walked to the rock's edge, wanting to listen to it until the last echo disappeared, wanting to capture it in his hands.

Boon and Watt had the bad—or perhaps good—fortune to come of age during one of rock's most abject periods. "That Seventies stuff, the Journey, Boston, Foreigner stuff, it was lame," Watt says. "If it weren't for those type of bands we never would have had the nerve to be a band. But I guess you need bad things to make good things. It's like with farming—if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

Punk rock was an idea, not a musical style.

With their less-than-rudimentary musicianship, Beat Happening might have been making a conceptual point, but it was also the best they could manage. The way the music harked back to sounds from throughout the rock & roll timeline said much more about the inherent characteristics of rock music than it did about the breadth of the band's record collection

the old idea that a rock band can be a vital, inspiring part of a community of people looking to improve society.

Before beginning, mark the solemn words of 'Nigel Norris' – a fictitious freelance writer for Rolling Stone, setting out his stall in Howard Schuman's television drama of 1976, Rock Follies, episode three, 'The Road': Norris: 'I think one should apply the same critical standards to rock music as to any other art form.

Out on the street I couldn't tell the Vietnam veterans from the rock and roll veterans. The sixties had made so many casualties, its war and its music had run power off the same circuit for so long they didn't even have to fuse.

What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.

A whole genre of rock, called math rock, is based on using complex time signatures, such as 7/8, 11/8, 13/8, and so on, in order to break away from the 4/4 time that's the standard in rock.

The need to be vocal can't be overemphasized: "We need to change the concept of the library as restricted, quiet space--we bustle, we rock, we engage, but so many people in the community do not know this.

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.

To most people, the sheer wall of El Capitan in Yosemite valley is just a huge chunk of featureless rock. But to the climber it is an arena offering an endlessly complex symphony of mental and physical challenges.

Fish are always eating other fish. If fish could scream, the ocean would be loud as shit. You would not want to submerge your head, nothing but fish going "Ahhh, fuck! I thought I looked like that rock!

They're playing groupie, so I'm playing rock star.

Noah St. John, bad buy of rock and concerned father of imaginary daughters. Hell hath frozen over and become an ice ring.