Quotes About Rock

Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

As rock became less a movement and more a business, its impact, though not its popularity, declined. It seemed unlikely that rock would soon become a television staple. But some day its fans would be middle-aged, so even that possibility could not be permanently excluded.

This Truth, therefore, that the Kingdom of God is within us, that its light is solely the Lamb of God, its Spirit solely the Spirit of God, stands upon a Rock, against which all Attempts are in vain.

God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.

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

My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

Elvis Presley? He's God.

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

Vinnie rocks her Garden and moans that God won't help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked every day.

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.

I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.