“These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.” LittlesBitsRocksLittle BitHipsThese DaysRock N Roll Author:Nick Lowe
“Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.” LittlesPlayBitsRocksHugeBandLittle BitGunRoseQueensRock BandsManiaAerosmithGuns N RosesBon Jovi Author:PSY
“Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.” I CanPlaySongBitsRocksCoupleMusicianPicksGuitarSingersRock And Roll Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson
“But what is life to a lichen ? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on.” IfsBelieveStrongI BelieveBitsGrowthLosesRocksGoes OnStrongerWoodsDecadesImpulseWhat Is LifeFurry Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.” IfsWantTryingKidsStarsBitsTermRocksDependsSensationalTartsSensationalism Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview
“It's hard for me to play seated theaters because people tend to sit down and get a little bit complacent, so it's less energy. It's just very dry and dead. People start to feel like they're watching a movie. The environment when they walk into it, it's not standing room only, smoking and drinking and rock 'n' roll. So it's a little bit dangerous to do that.” PeopleFeelsLittlesHardPlayEnergyBitsWalksRoomsEnvironmentRocksDangerousLittle BitStandingTheaterDown AndDrinkingDrySmokingRock N RollComplacentDead PeopleSmoking And Drinking Author:Jack White
“I really don't. I have truly eclectic taste in music and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; World Music, Brit-pop, Classic Rock, Blues/Jazz, even the odd bit of Heavy metal.” WorldSeemsBitsTermRocksTasteJazzHeavyPopsOddClassicCyclesMetalsPhasesEclecticHeavy MetalBritsWorld MusicClassic RockTaste In MusicEclectic Style Author:Rachel Miner
“It breaks your heart when you throw something away, but it's what left that counts. It's like worrying about the bits of rock you have knocked off in order to make a beautiful statue. You've wasted half the rock, yeah, but it's the Venus di Milo!” HeartBeautifulOrderLeftBitsHalfBreakWorryRocksYeahStatuesVenusBreak Your Heart Author:Ricky Gervais
“Secretly in my heart, I believe food is a doorway to almost every dimension of our existence. ... Food never was just food. From the time a cave person first came out from under a rock, food has been a little bit of everything: who we are spiritually as well as what keeps us alive. It's a gathering place, and in the best of all worlds it's possible that when people of one country sit down to eat another culture's food it will open their minds to the culture itself. Food is a doorway to understanding, and it can be as profound or as facile as you would like it to be.” PeopleWorldMindFirstsBelieveWellsHeartLittlesPersonsHas BeensCountryCultureI BelieveBitsUnderstandingExistenceAliveRocksFoodMy HeartLittle BitProfoundWho We AreDimensionsCavesGatheringDoorwaysGathering Places Author:Lynne Rossetto Kasper
“I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.” PeopleFirstsLittlesPersonsMadeStillsCountryBitsRocksBrotherListeningGrewLittle BitGrew UpMovedMusicalGenreRock N RollConfusingChuckBerriesHybridEverly Brothers Author:Teddy Thompson
“As much as I can, as much as I can afford, I keep ticket prices down. Rock 'n' roll was developed as the people's voice, the people's art, it was grassroots. I don't believe that the people should be estranged from their rock stars. They're not kings and queens - all rock stars are those who are able to give back a bit of culture to other people. It's people's heritage.” PeopleGivingShouldBelieveArtI CanAbleCultureStarsBitsVoiceRocksKingsDon't BelieveQueensHeritageRock N RollTicketsGiving BackRock StarGrassrootsKings And Queens Author:Patti Smith
“I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.” MenFirstsBitsTechnologyPiecesFourRocksCenturyBalanceTwentiesTablesCaughtLegsWelcomeRestaurantsDevicesBack And ForthNineteenth CenturyOne Piece Author:Leonard Susskind
“Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.” LittlesHas BeensWholeRunningUniverseBitsAnimalRocksLittle BitMatesRunning AwayEnd TimesSpend TimeDividing Author:Terry Pratchett
“Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing.” ThinkingLittlesCountryArtistBitsRocksLittle BitRootsGood ThingsStayingThrowingStay TrueFlairMusic Artist Author:Jason Aldean
“I think my music is definitely country but it's got a little bit of that rock flair about it. I always try to find the things that everyday people deal with in their everyday lives and situations in the songs that I sing.” PeopleThinkingTryingLittlesCountrySongBitsDealsSituationRocksLittle BitMusic IsEverydayEveryday LifeFlair Author:Jason Aldean