Best Rocks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.”

Made Enough Rocks Huge Proud Band Damn Rock N Roll Purple Niche Damn Good Good Bands Deep Purple

Author:Jon Lord

“Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.”

World Two Ideas Together Creativity Rocks Around The World Flames Sparks Satisfying New Ideas

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.”

Giving Children Turns Space Rocks Particular Our Children Your Children Fishing Rough Yards Bugs Small Child Manicures

Author:Richard Louv

“I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.”

People Enough Turns Stars Millions Minutes Rocks Stage Fronts Tvs Thousand Lucky Concerts Rock Star Spinal Tap

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.”

Rocks Chicks Animalistic

Author:Taryn Manning

“Rock'n'roll saved my soul.”

Soul Rocks Saved My Soul Rock N Roll

Author:Thurston Moore

“It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.”

Play Stars Rocks Rock Star

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.”

Wells School House Party Rocks College Band High School Touring Rock Bands Togas

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.”

Men Want Forever Rocks I Want You

Author:Jason Newsted

“In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.”

Way Body Sports Brain Rocks Movement Wall Higher Lows Your Body Climbing Rock Climbing Persuading

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.”

Ideas Song Behinds Player Rocks Band Glory Concepts Rock And Roll Digging Ragged Cassettes

Author:Krist Novoselic

“I'm obsessed with 'Game of Thrones.' I love comedies - I really like '30 Rock' and 'Modern Family.'”

Games Comedy Modern Rocks Obsessed Thrones Modern Family

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.”

Thinking Play Body Forever Rocks Rock Music Filters

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.”

Dream Form Song Lines Childhood Rocks Originals Albums Drawing Bunch Punk Rock And Roll Dreams Come True Influential Childhood Dreams

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.”

Way Wells Stars Rocks Huge Tough Incredibles Contradiction Rock Star Entertainers Mercury

Author:Karen O

“To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.”

Hard Rocks Shoes Rock N Roll Hard Things

Author:Kelly Osbourne

“I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.”

Rocks Fronts Grew Grew Up Mirrors Tennis Rock N Roll Racket

Author:Jonathan Pryce

“Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry, so arid, so hard; this rock which thou hast struck a second time, will not resist thee any longer, for out of it there now gushes healthful waters in abundance. The selfsame voice of God which overturns the mountains, thunders, lightens, and divides the heaven above, now commands the clouds to pour forth showers of blessings, changing the desert of his soul into a field producing a hundredfold; that voice I hear.”

Heart Soul Hard God Eye Heaven Voice Water Rocks Fields Tears Divine Blessing Mountain Flow Clouds Command My Soul Thee Desert Dry Abundance Divides Showers Thunder Voice Of God

Author:Jean Baptiste Massillon

“My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because I have studied it from all sides for many years; because I have examined all objections which have ever been made against the infinite numbers; and above all because I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things.”

Knows Years Firsts Made Speak Causes Sides Numbers Rocks Theory Return Roots Logic Infinite Certainty Uncertainty Firm Reasoning Arrows Objections Infallible Ontology Archer

Author:Georg Cantor

“I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.”

Felt Rocks Fame Foundation Lays Halls Rock And Roll Overlooked Hall Of Fame

Book:Little Miss Dynamite: the life and times of Brenda Lee

Source: Little Miss Dynamite: the life and times of Brenda Lee

“Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.”

People Jobs Rocks Widows Widowhood

Author:Courtney Love

“Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.”

Rocks Connections Hip Hop Hips Hops Punk Punk Rock

Author:Cat Power

“I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.”

Rocks Jazz Rock Music

Author:Clarke Peters

“It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.”

Ifs Way Littles Happens Used Records Rocks Used To Be Stations Djs Atlanta Good Records Little Rock

Author:Charley Pride

“Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want.”

Want Can Do Rocks What You Want Survivor Rock N Roll

Author:Jeff Probst

“I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.”

Want I Can Literature Names Rocks Rock And Roll Suspicious

Author:Manuel Puig

“I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.”

Bigs Fans Rocks Fame Ego Halls Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Personal Things Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Author:Steve Perry

“I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.”

Rocks Transformed Rock And Roll

Author:Robert Quine

“Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.”

I Can Play Rocks Jazz Rock And Roll

Author:Suzi Quatro

“I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.”

Stills Life Is Courses Stars Stuff Records Rocks Computer Shops Frustrated Rock Star Bad Life

Author:Ian Rankin

“When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact.”

Facts Stars Rocks Singers Comedian Frustrated Rock Star

Author:Jeff Ross

“That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.”

People Firsts Made Play Chance Rocks Fronts Majors Camps Boots Good Friend Rock And Roll Boot Camp

Author:Adam Rich

“But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Country Play Able Careers Rocks Fronts Musician Performances Jazz Lasting Songwriting Punk Songwriters Groundwork

Author:Amy Ray

“I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.”

Wells Soul Rocks Classic Rock And Roll Notches Classic Rock Top Notch

Author:Haley Reinhart

“I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.”

Mean Spirit Fun Rocks Rock N Roll

Author:Joey Ramone

“Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.”

Special Rocks Rock N Roll Special To Me

Author:Joey Ramone

“Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.”

Littles Stills Country Rocks Kings Elements Aspect Storytelling Melody Songwriting 80s Little Rock

Author:Lionel Richie

“Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I've always wanted to be a rock star.”

Wanted Stars Rocks Rock Star

Author:Cobie Smulders

“Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.”

Real Lines Player Rocks Focused Great Things Castles Niche Motion Pictures

Author:Fred Seibert

“When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.”

People Reason Wanted Stars My Own Rocks Design Clothes Dresses Aspiration Concerts Rock Star Own Business Rock Concerts

Author:Anna Sui

“There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that's about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don't see another comedian who I put in high regard as him.”

People Knows Years Whole Class Middle Rocks Years Ago Regard Comedian

Author:Bob Saget

“I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?”

Knows Said Young Girl Names Rocks Rock N Roll

Author:Carrie Snodgress

“Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.”

Shows Feelings Dream Reality Care Games Rocks Sorry Genuine Prize Bob Reality Shows Toasters Game Shows

Author:Hal Sparks

“So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.”

Knows Wanted Young Stars Records Plans Rocks Rock Star

Author:Katey Sagal

“I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.”

Wanted Stars Rocks Grew Grew Up Singers Songwriters Rock Star Singer Songwriters

Author:Katey Sagal

“Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.”

Writing Secret Cutting Progress Rocks Mountain Picks Flow Highways Chipping Away Slow Progress

Author:Piers Anthony

“There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.”

Humans Humanity Human Beings Rocks Buddhism Boat Hostile

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.”

House Hours Walks Half Five Minutes Rocks Five Minutes Parades Half Hours

Author:Jason Sudeikis

“In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.”

Years States Found Stars President Rooms Trouble Rocks Grew Grew Up Vices Sentences Defense Secretary Rock Star Vice President Completing

Author:Joe Scarborough

“I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.”

Rocks Fame Let Me Accepted Halls Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Author:Nancy Sinatra

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