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Quotes About Rock

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
~ Val Kilmer
What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.
~ Andrew Bird
No one's ever done what AC/DC did out of anywhere, really. Conquered the world, mate, that was the idea from the start. A little Napoleon in all of us.
~ Phil Rudd
Honestly, with pop and rock and things, artists are from all over the place, so they're kind of isolated. The city of Nashville helps create the camaraderie. Everyone moves there for the same reason.
~ Matthew Ramsey
When the blade dulled, he sharpened it on the rock, an experience he admired-the surface that dulled it could refresh it as well.
~ Chris Offutt
Just because you cannot see aliveness in a rock does not mean the rock doesn't have it. The rock is made of atoms. Inside each atom is a furious realm of activity with its neutrons and protons forming a nucleus around which electrons orbit at speeds that can travel around the earth in a little over 18 seconds.
~ Chris Prentiss
There was a sense of comfort being wrapped up in his arms. He was calm in the middle of a terrifying experience. He was a rock she could cling to.
~ Christine Feehan
Para ser honesto era muito raro ferver, mas gostava do som da expressão fervoroso pagão e creio que seria um nome fantástico para uma banda de rock cristã.
~ Christopher Moore
The snail, presumably, to bolster the self-esteem of the turtles: "You think we're slow? Look at that guy." To shore up the snail's morale in the same way, there was a rock. Everyone is happier if they have someone to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both. This is not only the Beta Male strategy for survival, but the basis for capitalism, democracy, and most religions.
~ Christopher Moore
L'enfant, comme clou sur la roche que la marée haute commençait à baigner, regarda la barque s'éloigner. On eût dit qu'il comprenait. Quoi? Que comprenait-il? L'ombre.
~ Victor Hugo
It's better to burn out than to fade away.
~ Kurt Cobain
Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.
~ Kurt Cobain
I like the comfort in knowing that women are generally superior and naturally less violent than men. I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.
~ Kurt Cobain
it's better to burn out than fade away
~ Kurt Cobain
Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that's what we're needing! We've needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o'clock.
~ Kurt Tucholsky
is a MYTHical MANchild Of rather dubious distinction Always AGITATING COMBINATING and ELEVATING his game He dribbles fakes then takes the ROCK to the glass, fast, and on BLAST But watch out when he shoots or you'll get SCHOOLed FOOLed UNCOOLed 'Cause when FILTHY gets hot He has a SLAMMERIFIC SHOT It's Dunkalicious CLASSY Supersonic SASSY and D O W N right in your face mcNASTY
~ Kwame Alexander
Trust God's Word and His power more than you trust your own feelings and experiences. Remember, your Rock is Christ, and it is the sea that ebbs and flows with the tides, not Him.
~ L.B.E. Cowman
I am grieved at your sorrow, although it will hereafter be a source of joy unto you. The purest water runs from the hardest rock.
~ landor walter savage iii
Nottingham's Rock Cemetery, with its magnificent marble angels and sandstone catacombs.
~ Catharine Arnold
Butterfield Blues Band, Vanilla Fudge...
~ Cathleen Schine
Some lioness whelped you on a mountain rock In Libya, or else you're Scylla's child Whose womb's all barking dogs, for only a wild Beast with the nature of a beast could mock A desperate man making a last appeal Down on his knees. Bitch heart too hard to feel!
~ Catullus
The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Only then do I feel cleansed and full of vitality: the voice of the sea, the amniotic rock of it, the burst of salt air in the lungs, they can do this to you. As if the old soul, the bad soul, had been changed into little water drops and fallen into the ocean, never to be found.
~ Giles Foden
I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.
~ Glenn Hughes