“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
“That was exactly why people didn't want to give us any kind of life, because we were threatening their status quo, and they just didn't want to have room for girls playing rock 'n' roll. It bothered them. First, people just tried to get around it by saying, "Oh, wow, isn't that cute? Girls playing rock 'n' roll!," and when we said, "Yeah, right, this isn't a phase; it's what we want to do with our lives," it became, "Oh! You must be a bunch of sluts. You dykes, you whores." That's what it became. Then it became a name-calling contest.” PeopleWantGivingFirstsKindSaidGirlNamesRoomsOur LivesRocksCallingYeahBunchCuteWowRock N RollPhasesThreateningContestsStatus QuoBotheredName CallingCute GirlDykes Author:Joan Jett
“Yeah? Rock 'n' Roll is fast, you know. If all goes according to plan I could be in rehab next thursday. Tuesday week I'll be living on an island with a small Indian boy.” IfsKnowsHumorFunnyNextBoysPlansWeekRocksYeahIndianIslandsRock N RollLiving OnTuesdayRehabThursdayAccording To Plan Author:Noel Fielding
“We never had a pool, right. So one summer, I remember. My dad, to make me happy. You know I was bummed out cause we didn't have the pool. So one summer he bought us this thing. It was yellow, you laid it on the lawn, sprayed it with the water, run across. Slip n' Slide. Yeah. Would have been fun if dad checked for rocks before he laid it down! Slip n' Bleed from the anus they should have called this ride.” IfsKnowsShouldHas BeensRunningRememberFunCausesWaterRocksDadSummerShould HaveYeahMy DadYellowPoolSlipsSlidesLawnsMake Me HappyBummed OutAnus Author:Dane Cook
“I've always been a prog rock fanatic, even before Vengeance. However I think I started to love the genre with Pink Floyd, yeah. I love them from the very beginning, also the Syd Barrett era.” ThinkingRocksYeahErasGenreVengeanceFanatics Author:Arjen Anthony Lucassen
“How can you go on stage and shout 'Yeah! Rock'n'roll forever!' and then go to bed at 10 o'clock with a nightcap on, a candle in your hand and a Bible under your arm?” HandsForeverRocksStageArmsGoes OnBedYeahClockCandleRock N RollNightcap Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“I could definitely rock out to Kraftwerk's "Tour De France," Tubeway Army, or Gary Numan. All of that stuff has an infectious beat, but with "Oh Yeah," I can't even identify what's going on. It sounds like typewriter keys, a couple of synth notes and then this really deep "Oh yeah," which I always picture as Andre The Giant on vocals.” I CanStuffSoundRocksKeysCoupleBeatsArmyYeahNotesFranceGiantsVocalTypewritersGaryReally Deep Author:Margaret Cho
“Johnny [Depp] got this rock 'n' roll old soul to him. If I say a song, he goes, 'Oh yeah. I know that song.' A song he shouldn't know, a song that's not his generation at all. So he might as well have been there.” IfsKnowsWellsHas BeensSoulMightSongGenerationsRocksYeahRock N RollOld Soul Author:Alice Cooper
“I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.” ThinkingYearsFirstsTwoGrowing UpRecordsGrowingFansRocksHugeYeahTunesTwo YearsRock And RollTorontoHemisphere Author:Kiefer Sutherland
“Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.” WantTryingWellsRealMightSchoolRocksHigh SchoolYeahCornersBrooksSeattleDowntownBabbling Book:The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Source: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
“Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of dust accumulated there since beginningless time. In fact I was afraid of those jagged monstrosities all around and over our heads. "They're so silent!" I said. "Yeah man, you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sitting there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.” ThinkingKnowsMenYearsMeanSaidFactsSilenceRocksPrayingMountainCreaturesSittingYeahSilentDustCoveredAtomsLiving CreaturesMonstrosity Book:Road Novels 1957-1960 Source: Road Novels 1957-1960
“I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band. "Or a song," the Duke said, and then she started singing all glam rock, a glove up to her face holding an imaginary mic as she rocked out an a cappella power ballad. "Oh, I deep fried for you / But now I weep 'n' cry for you / Oh, babe, this meal was made for two / And these hash browns mean nothing, oh these hash browns mean nothing, yeah these HASH BROWNS MEAN NOTHIN' without you.” MeanMadeSaidTwoFacesSongNamesRocksCryBandSingingYeahMealsLaughedImaginaryWithout YouGlovesBabeDukesBalladsMicsGlamHashGlam Rock Book:Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories
“He stops rocking the cage. "Oh, come on, Callie. It won't be fun if we don't rock it. In fact, the more we rock it, the better it'll feel." His voice drops to a deep whisper. "We can rock it nice and slow or really, really fast."... "Do I have your permission to rock away and give you the ride of your life?" Why does it feel like he's secretly talking dirty to me? "Yeah, go ahead, rock it nice and hard," I say without thinking, then bite down on my lip as the dirty section of my brain catches up with me. Honestly, I didn't even know that side existed.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingFeelsDoeHardFactsFunSidesVoiceBrainTalkingNiceRocksYeahLipsHonestlyDirtyBitesPermissionSectionsCagesDirty Talk Author:Jessica Sorensen
“I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.” PeopleThinkingHeartArtStillsFormRocksChangedExcitingYeahRevolutionaryRock N RollRubbishBad Music Author:Nick Cave