50s Rock And Roll Sayings

#1. 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.

Aaron Johnson

#2. It's important to realize that everybody who went into country music, and most everybody who went into rock and roll in the '50s, they had no more goal than a hit on the jukebox. Johnny Cash from the very beginning had a goal that he wanted to make music that lifted people's spirits.

Robert Hilburn

#3. Be stingy with your money! Don't splurge at the mall - and definitely don't give it to your boyfriend!

Kimora Lee Simmons

#4. I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

Rick Moranis

#5. I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always loved music. Started out loving to sing to the standards and songs of the early 50s, then that interest shifted to rock and roll, Motown, folk.

Timothy B. Schmit

#6. Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.

Placido Domingo

#8. The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Frankie Laine all topped the charts in the '50s. Load a playlist of rock n' roll royalty. You're spoilt for choice.

Sara Sheridan

#9. We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.

Edsger Dijkstra

#10. Dear Judy Blume, why didn't you write a book about how to survive talking to your centuries-old, super-duper experienced, smoking-hot soul mate about sex for the first time ever? That book would have been extremely helpful in preparing me for this incredibly awkward situation.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#11. Not only are mortals rotten, the very atmosphere in which we live is materially and physically rotten, swarming with maggots, with obscene appearances, poisonous minds, and foul organisms.

Antonin Artaud

#12. One of the great things about writing middle-grade books is that it's really a nice break, when you're writing super intense stuff like 'Coldtown', to be able to write something a little lighter - calm down and do something different.

Holly Black

#13. My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

Jerry Lee Lewis

#14. I still love you, too, Ian. It just doesn't mean anything anymore.

Willow Aster

#15. I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

Richard P. Feynman

#16. A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination.

Marty Rubin

#17. I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.

Bob McDonnell

#18. 19For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

Anonymous

#19. Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - and well into the '60s - was two and a half minutes. It's very hard to put that much songwriting into two and a half minutes.

J. D. Souther

#20. I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Gary Sheffield