Best Alternative Rock Quotes

#1. Father Brown: ... one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place

G.K. Chesterton

#2. The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind.

Gautama Buddha

#3. In every bad situation we have to see Satan's motives behind a person's actions

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

Brett Favre

#5. I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.

John Legend

#6. In my opinion, hip-hop has a lot to do with rock and roll, because at one point it was considered an alternative - edgy, independent. Hip-hop is pots and pans the way that punk is garage. You make something out of nothing.

CeeLo Green

#7. If you want to call it quits, just tell me. Man up and say it to my face. Don't just skulk around.

J.M. Richards

#8. I drink coffee for the taste, of course, since caffeine is the last thing I need. Most of the things I do in life are for flavor, not necessity

Emery Lord

#9. The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

J.G. Ballard

#10. I THINK ITS COOL THAT OTHER CROWDS LIKE WHAT I DO. HOWEVER IVE ALWAYS HAD A GOOD MIX OF PEOPLE AT MY SHOWS. I STARTED DOING THINGS ON RADIO ON ROCK MARKETS AND ALTERNATIVE MARKETS. IVE ALWAYS BEEN A COUNTRY TYPE ACT HOWEVER I STARTED WITH THE ROCK MARKET. IM VERY INTERCHANGEABLE.

Larry The Cable Guy

#11. She wondered what it said about her spiritual fitness that her clearest messages from the Almighty seemed to come from the alternative rock station.

Julia Spencer-Fleming

#12. I was into alternative stuff, but I was also open to a little bit of hard rock and metal, like Guns N' Roses, Metallica.

Girl Talk

#13. When alternative music - which is supposed to be the standard-bearer of where white rock is headed - becomes either too cute or too manufactured, that's just really not good.

Billy Corgan

#14. We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.

Nate Ruess

#15. We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Emile Durkheim

#16. In broad strokes, punk happened after arena rock like Jimmy Carter happened after Watergate: there was enough revulsion to momentarily contemplate an alternative, but then the underlying conservative dynamic reasserted itself.

Eric Weisbard

#17. But don't you think there some stories that are more alive than that? When you put certain books back on the shelf, don't you feel as if the people inside are going on with their lives after the story is over?" Lucy felt that way about most of the books she loved.

Kristin Kladstrup

#18. First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius.
"Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

Alethea Kontis

#19. Creativity is the catalyst to the future.

Ann Marie Frohoff

#20. Punk is not just the sound, the music, punk is a lifestyle.

Green Day

#21. I can't tell you what genre Maroon 5 is in. I don't know if they're rock or pop or alternative. I don't know what they are. I have a hard time separating that stuff. I just know what I like when I hear it.

Blake Shelton

#22. I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.

Al Yankovic

#23. Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.

Page McConnell

#24. I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music.

Simon Cowell

#25. Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

Mary Augusta Ward

#26. What is better than to love and live with the loved?
But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.

George Eliot

#27. I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

Anushka Sharma

#28. We are more anxious to speak than to be heard

Henry David Thoreau

#29. I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

Brad Paisley

#30. Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

Ednita Nazario

#31. I still think there's a big part of the population that has a lot of misinformation about sharks. But I think it's beginning to change a little bit. As good information about sharks permeates popular culture, things may start to change.

Brian Skerry

#32. Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.

Jay McInerney

#33. I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz.

Corbin Bleu

#34. I'm a singer-songwriter. So I play guitar, and I sing. Along the lines of, I guess you could call it, alternative rock.

Brandon Jones

#35. A good story is like a road. If it's well put together, you don't notice the road at all; you just enjoy the ride. If the road is bad, you notice the whole way.

Ken MacGregor

#36. I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.

Osric Chau