Quotes About Rock

I saw the movie Sid & Nancy. It was a pretty good movie. It didn't really make me a punk rock fan. But anything that's new, as long as it's good I enjoy it.

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.

One of the great things about Taylor Hawkins is his…shirtless body, really.

I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure.

Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n' roll song. There ain't no DJ that's gonna play something that can take 'Mr Brightside' or 'Don't Look Back In Anger.'

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.

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!

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

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

Helianthus snorted. "Olorun is like his mother: he will only change as the face of a rock changes. But . . . I think he missed you.

When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

The only way to soften a hard heart. You can best counter the heart-hardening effect of sin by breaking it with God's hammer—His Word. "'Is not my word like fire,' declares the Lord, 'and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?'" (Jeremiah 23:29).

body-print at southern Monkha Rock: Mon is an area in southern Tibet and Bhutan. The body-print is an impression of Padmasambhava's body in the rock.

LED ZEPPELIN HATED Rolling Stone, and me in particular.

Terry liked fiction, so we had Joe Heller, Richard Price, Tom McGuane, Robert Stone, J. P. Donleavy, and Kurt Vonnegut writing for us. Terry was not a rock and roller; Terry liked hanging out at Elaine's.

I was trying to find a paradigm for "rock and roll values." I asked Jerry Garcia for advice on how big an organization should get. He said I should stop hiring people once I started not remembering everyone's name.

The Stones were also about to release Let It Bleed, with "Midnight Rambler" and "Gimme Shelter." I think by this point the magazine had anointed them "the world's greatest rock and roll band.

Sometimes I wish Jim Morrison were still alive, because I'd love to see a concert in which "The Doors" opened up for "The Cars.