Quotes About Rockers

#1. I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.

Suzi Quatro

#2. Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.

Tony Visconti

#3. It's funny, because athletes want to be rockers and vice versa.

Matt Willig

#4. Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.

Moby

#5. [Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [ ... ] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [ ... ] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music.

John C. Reilly

#6. I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

Norman Reedus

#7. I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

Tony Benn

#8. Within the space of a few shows you can hear the band morph between their various identities as savvy arena rockers, intense starship pilots, vaudeville nostalgists, modest American folkies, boundary-dissolving improvisers, roots-conscious spiritualists, and mind-fucking pranksters.

Richard Gehr

#9. I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.

Edgar Winter

#10. I will miss our porch. I thought about that as I settled into one of its rockers,

Alessandra Torre

#11. I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.

Albert Rosenfeld

#12. We were the neoromantic dance freaks of the eighties, proudly displaying our blow-dried mullets. Among us, you also found the stud-bracelet-wearing punk rockers with sky-high Mohawks. Pastel-colored, shoulder-padded fashion met ripped-jeans-and-leather-jacket anti-fashion.

Gudjon Bergmann

#13. Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

Moby

#14. The British rockers saved me. They brought me to a different generation altogether [in the 60th]. The Who and The Yardbirds and Georgie Fame and Van Morrison and all those people. The only person who ever did my songs in [ U.S] country was Bonnie Raitt.

Mose Allison

#15. I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!

Tennessee Ernie Ford

#16. Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis ... you know in the '60s.

Joe Cocker

#17. It was quite a collection of people: Hindus and Buddhists, rockers and doctors, all accomplished, all gathered in the United Church of Christ's Garden of Allah.

Brent Schlender

#18. The band may be small in terms of numbers with only two members, but Halifax rockers The Town Heroes are mighty in sound.

Ken Kelly

#19. Maybe all hospitals should import groups of rabble-rousing punk rockers to kick-start the languishing patients' hearts.

Gayle Forman

#20. Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

David Bailey

#21. Marriage felt like a fading American institution, as relevant to me as the Elks Club. Plus, I considered myself punk rock, and punk rockers don't believe in boring societal conventions like marriage. We prefer boring societal conventions like punk rock.

Michael Ian Black

#22. I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.

Gregory Maguire

#23. All punk rockers hate Christmas.

Rhys Ifans

#24. I find this less scandalous than beautiful: a kind of palimpsestic plagiarism that moves through bodies and time, a collective song with no single origin, or whose origin has been erased
the way a star, from our earthly perspective, is often survived by its own light.

Ben Lerner

#25. I love fishing, any kind of fishing.

Brandi Carlile

#26. Is it bad that I sort of want you to fuck me against the door so I'm sure they'll all hear?

Clancy Nacht

#27. I remember talking to John Mortimer, and he said he was relying on Rumpole to keep him in his old age; well, I'm doing the same with Phryne - she's my mainstay.

Kerry Greenwood

#28. When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.

Michael Ovitz

#29. Table 3.2 Components of Clinical Whole Blood, Plasma, and Serum Matrices

Amitava Dasgupta

#30. FreeBSD has a nicely tuned network stack and extremely good reliability.

Brian Acton

#31. People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

Bernhard Schlink

#32. You're too old to still be playing. I'll buy you a rocker you can sit in.

Stan Mikita

#33. Because you're in a band, you go for other people in bands or in the music industry, but people don't grow up right when they're on tour all the time. They don't do the same things as someone who's been at home and gone to school and got a bunch of crappy jobs.

~Allison Robertson

Paul Miles

#34. Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves.

Rebecca McNutt