Quotes about rock

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

My sister's journal was the romantic one with boys, and mine was talking about my rock tumbler. We were so different and so similar.

I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.

Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.

There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

Your dreams are your solid rock all other dreams are sinking sands! Recreate Your World and I believe you can!

Being like a rock wall" is when a master of martial arts suddenly becomes like a rock wall, inaccessible to anything at all, immovable.

Tightened his bootlaceSharpened his bladeThe Hunter walked along and prayedFor tonight's prey--Song Of the Hunter

When all the birds drowned in the sliver bayWhen the smoke signal went into outer spaceNobody would rememberThe day the world went awayWhen the blood dripped off the rusted blade When the Bible was torn off another pageNobody would realizeThe day the world went away

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

We agreed that at least to some extent the whole punk movement is based on the Buddha's 1st noble truth of suffering & the dissatisfactory nature of the material world. The punks see through the lies of society & the oppressive dictates of modern consumer culture. Very few punks though seem to take it further & attempt to understand the causes & conditions of the suffering & falsehoods, unfortunately punks rarely come around to seeing that there is actually a solution & a path to personal freedo

It was still twilight when they reached the flat rock. They sat, and the stone still held the warmth of the day's sun. At first there were only occasional sparkles, but as it got darker Chuck was lost in a daze pf delight as a galaxy of fireflies twinkled on and off, flinging upward in a blaze of light, dropping earthward like falling stars, moving in contiuous effervescent dance.

It's a waste of time worrying about something that worry won't fix. It's about as useful as trying to feed your pet rock.

Again Sam’s genitals became rock, and this astonished him as much as anything. Through Franz, he was becoming the stone Earth; the final border separating him from the planet was disappearing. And this transformation to rock was fuelled by desire, the most ephemeral thing on Earth.

Halfway through the set, the lead singer, who goes by Cloud, knife in hand, begins to stab at the cutout of Copal Brandt with a lion's passion. Out of nowhere blood is produced and Cloud proceeds to rub it all over his own face and body, then on his own bandmates. Afterwards he roars into the microphone, 'Do you know why we're doing this, McAllen? We're doing this FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON!!!!!!!!!

Come with me to the mountains. Every rock there tells a story.

The noise distorts the truth but we can break through, we need to base our foundation upon the Rock.

Don’t want no more rock,” Orc repeated.The bleeding stopped almost immediately.“Does it hurt?” Lana asked. “I mean the rock. I know the hole hurts.”“No. It don’t hurt.” Orc slammed his fist against his opposite arm, hard enough that any human arm would have been shattered. “I barely feel it. Even Drake’s whip, when we was fighting, I barely felt it.”Suddenly he was weeping. Tears rolled from human eyes onto cheeks of flesh and pebbles.“I don’t feel nothing except…” He pointed a thick stone finge

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?

It’s not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the most incredible thing you’ll ever witness.

Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?” (Hebrews 13:5–6)

We are Darwin’s confetti. Some of us fall on bare rock. No matter how good you are, you can fail spectacularly. Just because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Or just because of some fatal flaw. Nothing to do with talent.

I mean, you want the truth as you wanna hear it? I can't do that. You couldn't afford me.

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.

Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.

Well, the way you'd been, old ladyI could see the fear in your windowsUnder your furry crawling browA silver bow rings up in inchesYou were afraid you'd be the devil's red wifeBut it's alright, God dug your danceAnd would have you young and in his harum

Any local music scene at any point in time can be referred to as derivative of more well-known acts. The line separating influence from imitation is a blurry one. Very few artists are completely original; even great artists build upon what has occurred before, and add their personality and talent to create their own original expression.

I wish I were a rock,' he said, and he became a rock.

Integrity is a high rock above which the stormy ocean of worldly troubles cannot rise.

You only get one go at it... might as well Rock it.

We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is my abandonment.

He recovered quickly, reaching out to touch a few outstretched hands, melting the front row of girls like one long stick of butter as he moved closer toward me.

My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

Just find what works for you, what style suits you best, and just be confident enough to rock it.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing - continue to rock it - because obviously, God wants you here.

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.

In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a rock chipped in such a way as to give it a sharp edge, and the discovery is made in a cave, I am seduced into ascribing this to tool use by distant, fetid and furry ancestors.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.

If I were a rock star, I'd design my own clothes. I'd do it because that's the mark of a true rock star.

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

My mom is definitely my rock.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

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

I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

A pet rock is a serious commitment and too much responsibility for a ten year old to handle on his own

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.

Rock n' roll is not just a fashion statement; it is the attitude, and it has a political posturing as well.

...there is a void in my guts which can only be filled by songs.

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today

She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back.

A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones.

She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing

Strange how potent cheap music is.

The Devil has all the best tunes? My arse! Metalville just got a new sheriff.

The music defied classification. If I had been writing areview of the show, I would have labeled it progressive,guitar-driven rock ’n’ roll. But the guitars made sounds guitarsdidn’t always make. Symphonic sounds. Sacred sounds.The music dug in so deep you didn’t hear it so much as feelit, reminding me of a dream I used to have when I was a kid,where I would be standing on a street corner, I would jumpinto the air, flap my arms, and soar up into the sky.That’s the only way I could describe the m

What's my age again?

Don't waste your time or time will waste you.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life.

Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all.

Don't mind us, we're just spilling our guts. If this is love, I don'twant to be hanging by the neck in front of an audience of Death.

Bowie talks in great, voluble torrents, darting from one topic to the next, parenthesizing and then parenthesizing the parentheses, as if he has too many ideas for one conversation.

There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact it's all dark.

Thousands of cars and a million guitarsScreaming with power in the air!We've found the place where the decibels raceThis army of rock will be thereTo ram it downRam it down!Straight to the heart of this town.Ram it down.Ram it down.Razing the place to the ground,Ram it down!

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical itself. It's interesting to see that development.

What the famous big blue Boy Scout told to a green Kryptonite? What?? YOU rock!

The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.