Rock And Rocks Quotes

#1. She was so desperate to love and be loved, she could sprout tender feelings toward a rock. And rocks didn't call her "bewitching" or "temptress." Rocks didn't have touchable golden brown hair.

But rocks and Ransom did have something in common.

Tessa Dare

#2. Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

#3. Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.

Bobby Helms

#4. Love is our true nature. When we do not express love in our words and actions it is like honey hidden in a rock.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#5. I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element.

Kid Rock

#6. If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.

Robin Trower

#7. Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock Factory. Tim and Todd run the northern plant in Cleveland, and I've got the southern plant down here in Dayton. No tours permitted.

Robert Pollard

#8. Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.

Mick Jagger

#9. I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?

Elizabeth Prentiss

#10. I want to make these films that I think other people would be scared to do. I don't think anyone can go off and make a rock opera. I think it's a very specific niche.

Darren Lynn Bousman

#11. Any other foundation will fail, but Christ is a sure and steady rock to build your life on.

Billy Graham

#12. Climbing is a full-body sport from your fingers to your toes, but at the same time, it's like a dance on the rock. It's about being strong and fit but also graceful and elegant and efficient on the rock.

Chris Sharma

#13. One of the [Million Mom] marchers said 'the hands that rock the cradle rule this nation.' I thought, 'no Madame, the hands that rock the cradle rule our families and governments and corporations. The hands that wrote the Constitution rule this nation'.

Charlton Heston

#14. Two or three tons of rock can really get you down-and keep you there.

Kamahl

#15. The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

Muddy Waters

#16. Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"

Bear Grylls

#17. The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.

Courtney Love

#18. The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

William M. Evarts

#19. Rock'n'roll is nothing but Boogie Woogie with stuff on top of it. And if you're black, they name it rhythm'n'blues, and if you're white, they name it rock'n'roll. So, I don't give a ... You know.

Ike Turner

#20. There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

Ronald Reagan

#21. I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

Eric Burdon

#22. A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.

Diana Ross

#23. Elvis may have fueled rock & roll's imagery, but Chuck Berry was its heartbeat and original mindset.

Cub Koda

#24. The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in ... The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.

John Lennon

#25. Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

Billy Joel

#26. I was brought up on rock-'n'-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn't get interested in anything else - I tried and tried but I couldn't get into science ... or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.

Bette Midler

#27. I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

Grace Slick

#28. To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.

Matthew Lillard

#29. Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

Neil Young

#30. Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

Russell Simmons

#31. Some days I pray to the God of sex and drums and rock and roll.

Meat Loaf

#32. That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology.

Billy Corgan

#33. What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so it is!

Thaddeus Norris

#34. Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love.

John Dyer Baizley

#35. Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

Steven Van Zandt

#36. I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything.

Kanye West

#37. Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

Shana Alexander

#38. There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music.

Miranda Lambert

#39. I feel like people are starting to come around and embrace rock. Because I guess they're getting sick of the stale sounds of certain electronica. They kind of get really bored with the fact that it's so self-indulgent.

Jason Reece

#40. Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.

Van Morrison

#41. Soft rock music isn't rock, and it ain't music. It's just soft.

George Carlin

#42. My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.

Al Kooper

#43. I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and that's what I like.

Marc Almond

#44. I've met a lot of rock stars when they come to The Simpsons, and almost every one of them I get really freaked out.

Hank Azaria

#45. You rock so, you rock so, you dip so, you dip so, you skank so, you skank so, and don't be no drag! You come so, you come so, for reggae is another bag!

Blake Lively

#46. I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

Elvis Presley

#47. I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

Bruce Springsteen

#48. We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.

Bruce Springsteen

#49. Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might be a little different.

Slash

#50. Who's going to save rock 'n' roll? It's so silly. Remember like in '86 or '87 and synthesizers were going to take over the world? And remember "rocktronica" in 1997? It's ridiculous.

Matthew Caws

#51. My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.

Rodney Dangerfield

#52. So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

Warren Jeffs

#53. [E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper.

Ellen Goodman

#54. What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to dance to in the club and the repetitiveness, whereas in rock music there is literally, like, balls-to-the-wall singing and playing. I love it.

Julianne Hough

#55. There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times.

Glenn Branca

#56. I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

Ray Davies

#57. I hit rock bottom when I was doing "The Brady Brides." I was supposed to be at the studio, screen testing to pick the guy that would play my husband. At this time, I had been up for three days doing coke and was playing solitaire in my closet.

Maureen McCormick

#58. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong. A house built on the sand is in fair weather just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is no strain upon it.

Henry Ward Beecher

#59. As much as I make my music for me, I make it for the people who rock with me and follow me. They're the inspiration behind it.

Torae

#60. What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

Joey Ramone

#61. I want you and the people of Israel to know a few things that have not and will not change. The United States stands firmly with Israel, and we have a rock solid commitment to the security of Israel and to the security of its citizens.

Leon Panetta

#62. Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.

Gene Simmons

#63. I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary.

Michael Gira

#64. [Rock and the intellectual Left] must both be interpreted as parts of the cultural fabric of late capitalism. Their success comes from the bourgeois' need to feel that he is not bourgeois.

Allan Bloom

#65. Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

Michael Azerrad

#66. Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#67. So God made girls ... God made girls ... He stood back and told the boys, I'm 'bout to rock your world ...

RaeLynn

#68. It's gonna be okay, no matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back.

Demi Lovato

#69. The original concept of rock and roll ... was supposed to be this young angst with mistakes and all. Four or five guys get together, get angry and that's really how it starts, and i'ts all this energy.

Peter Frampton

#70. The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.

Matt Groening

#71. It's the same at a rock-and-roll concert. You have an opening number with a strong entrance; then you go through a lot of the old standards, building up to your hit song at the end.

Marjoe Gortner

#72. Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#73. True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.

Ernest Renan

#74. Brands are the rock stars of commerce, and create many fans, both at home and abroad.

Simon Anholt

#75. My boyfriend isn't a rock star. His values are rock solid. We met at a dinner and he made me laugh.

Alek Wek

#76. When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock and roll was not just entertainment, it was the center of people's lives. When I was young, it was exciting and interesting.

Fran Lebowitz

#77. I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?

Ozzy Osbourne

#78. I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

Sam Shepard

#79. I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too.

Son Lux

#80. I know life sometimes can get tough!
And I know life sometimes can be a drag!
But people, we have been given a gift,
we have been given a road
And that road's name is Rock and Roll!

Paul Stanley

#81. Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.

David Bowie

#82. Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.

Forest Whitaker

#83. My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower.

Jon Stewart

#84. I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist.

Nicolas Cage

#85. Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

Marc Almond

#86. Man must get back to himself before he can learn his relation to his fellows. Prometheus chained to the Rock of Ages is doomed to remain the prey of the vultures of darkness. Unbind Prometheus, and you dispel the night and its horrors.

Emma Goldman

#87. Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.

Huey Lewis

#88. I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.

David Bowie

#89. Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#90. Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

Paul McCartney

#91. My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail.

Paul Banks

#92. My boyfriend says I dress like a rock star but I would say my style is hip and comfortable.

Lana Parrilla

#93. If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

Louis Armstrong

#94. My personal style is eclectic, I would say. I always like to mix and match things. Uh, but the thing is that it changes every single day. So if I'm feeling you know a little more rebellious, one day I may dress a little more punk rock. But most of the time I say, pretty consistently, I'm feminine.

Crystal Reed

#95. People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea?
I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture.

Thurston Moore

#96. Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.

D.H. Lawrence

#97. You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

Bob Dylan

#98. I just have to live my truth and know that it's okay to rock on my own vibration, because I'm me. I try to stand by that code, especially as a young Black woman in this industry. I try to walk the walk and talk the talk.

V. Bozeman

#99. As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.

David Byrne

#100. I really didn't know a lot of rock 'n' roll until I moved to L.A. Before that, when I was in New York, I grew up listening mostly to R&B and soul and jazz.

Lenny Kravitz