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Quotes About Rock

In the 1960s both Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants turned to popular genres of music to provide songs for Christian worship. Roman Catholic songs tended to follow the folk idiom, using acoustical instruments such as guitar and flute, whereas evangelical Protestants turned to rock music, using electronic instruments.
~ Frank C. Senn
1975 was a great year for rock and roll, and don't believe anyone who tells you different.
~ Frank Portman
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
~ Frank Zappa
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
~ Frank Zappa
The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
~ Bradley Chicho
Getting cut off from the knights' magic rock also required a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom. (Those of you in the Hushlands, I dare you to work that last sentence into a conversation. "By the way, Sally, did you know that getting cut from the knight's magic rock also requires a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom?")
~ Brandon Sanderson
So the gods," Moash said, nursing his own drink, "were pleased that you solved problems on your own . . . by going to other gods and begging them for help instead?" "Hush," Rock said. "Is good story.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You stopped for food on the way, Leyten," Sigzil said. "Even Rock beat your time, and he was skipping like a girl the last third." "Was Horneater dance of victory," Rock said from near Leyten. "Is very manly.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I go to the gods," Rock said. He held up his finger. "There is one who lives here. One afah'liki. He is powerful god, but tricky. You should not have lost his flute." "I … don't think Wit is a god, Rock.
~ Brandon Sanderson
But you can't be amazed at the convergent examples of domestication across the cosmere. You can't know any of this, because you live on a giant ball of rock full of slime where everything is wet and cold all the time. This is a dog, Kaladin. They're fluffy and loyal and wonderful.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You feel overwhelmed by distractions, fantasies, the disturbing desire to throw yourself into the world of pleasure. But you know already that you will not find there an answer to your deepest question. Nor does the answer lie in rehashing old events, or in guilt or shame. All of that makes you dissipate yourself and leave the rock on which your house is built.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Building a vocation on the expectations of concrete results, however conceived, is like building a house on sand instead of on solid rock, and even takes away the ability to accept successes as free gifts.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
I would like to suffocate with grief but instead I give birth to a rock.
~ Henry Miller
'Black Diamond' blew my mind. Ace Frehley came onstage and did it with us at Madison Square Garden a few years ago, which was a total high watermark in my life. When I was 13, I never thought in a million years that I would even talk to him; I'd probably pass out. And here I am playing with him!
~ Mike McCready
The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
~ D'Angelo
Working in bars back then, in the '50s, to get a job you had to play all kinds of music. There'd be customers come in and yell jazz tunes at you and yell rock 'n' roll tunes at you and polkas and rhythm and blues and country music.
~ J. J. Cale
When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager's brother answered the phone.
~ Steve-O
Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.
~ Angus Young
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.
~ Chadwick Boseman
Yosemite has the most impressive and accessible granite big walls in the world. The rock is amazing. And because of that, it's been the mecca for climbing in the U.S. - and the world to a large degree - for all of climbing history. It's the place to test yourself against the historic routes of the past.
~ Alex Honnold
Most of the people who are given these Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them. But for the Ramones, it really was a symbolic gesture of, 'Yes, you guys are special and are important to rock n' roll.' So in that sense, the Roll Hall of Fame served its purpose.
~ Tommy Ramone
Hearing a lot of early rock n' roll records from a very young age was a huge influence.
~ Angus Young
I was enamored with music at a very young age. Everything started with kundiman, then evolved to Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, and eventually classic rock music.
~ Arnel Pineda
The big stadiums get totally packed, and everyone knows the words, and it's screaming young girls. I met a whole bunch of great Nashville musicians, and they accepted me in their community. Classic rock and country music go well together.
~ Joe Walsh