Rock Quotes

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God

~ Billy Corgan

God is the ROCK of all ages.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

~ Vera Nazarian

The Truth burns the heart like a hammer breaking a rock.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Music is the fastest motivator in the world.

~ Amit Kalantri

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

~ Amit Kalantri

Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet.

~ J.r. Rim

Unbelief hardness human heart to be like a rock.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With Bruford, the album was One Of A Kind. All-instrumental, it possessed the kind of focused vision that allowed for no ifs or buts. With the unnerving confidence of youth, it had This Is What We Do And This Is How We Do It stamped all over it.

~ Bill Bruford

Musicians have always had a better understanding of love than the rest of us. Over the years they have told us that love: is like a rock, is here to stay, is all you need, will find a way, will keep us together, will tear us apart, sucks.

~ Cuthbert Soup

Sorgan tried his very best not to think about how long it must have taken for a stream that small to eat its way down through solid rock to form its current bed. Sorgan knew exactly what the word “hundred” meant, but when numbers wandered off toward “thousand”—or even “million”—and the people who used those terms were talking about years, Sorgan’s mind shied back in horror.

~ David Eddings

A bird, unable to fly, is still a bird; but a human unable to love is an inexpensive stone: like a piece of uric acid stone

~ Munia Khan

Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

~ Timothy Leary

Don’t beat yourself up, son. I’m sure there is a culture on this spinning ball of dirt where you can be pretty. If not, do rock ‘n roll, or practice words. That shit’s pretty as well.

~ R.x. Bird

Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!

~ Morrissey

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

~ Bob Dylan

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

~ Vera Nazarian

What's my age again?

~ Blink-182

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

~ Muse

Strange how potent cheap music is.

~ Noël Coward

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

~ Mark Rice

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 music.It was the sonic equivalent of flight.

~ Tiffanie Debartolo

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

~ Björk

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!

~ Rob Halford

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.

~ Get Scared - Sarcasm

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.

~ Sean Egan

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

~ Pink Floyd

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.

~ Kurt Cobain

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.

~ David Hepworth

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

~ Bob Dylan

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

~ Jessica Hopper

Life is like playing a guitar and meditation is like music. Small session of rehearsals daily won’t show much but would make you ROCK in the long run.

~ Vikrmn

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

~ Megha Khare

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

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Strong enough to make holes in the rock are tiny drops of water that persist to fall. Persistence is the attitude that breaks down mountains one rock at a time!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You may not be able to change the world for the better, but the world is able to change you for the worst, don't give them the rock you stand on.

~ Anthony Liccione

That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.

~ Ellen Dreyer

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even ahead of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.

~ Lester Bangs