Quotes of: Rock-music Keyword

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

Annette Funicello

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

Anthony Kiedis

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Al Stewart

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

Andy Summers

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

Billie Joe Armstrong

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

Ben Barnes

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

Billy Corgan

Rock bottom demands we pay a price for the ride back to the top.

Toni Sorenson

Worry is like a rocking-chair. It gives you something to do buy gets you nowhere.

Life

You can't truly appreciate the top if you've never hit rock bottom.

Vanna B.

What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever.

Vietnamese saying

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

Wayne Knight

'30 Rock' is my favorite TV show and Tina Fey is one of my heroes. She was a dream to work with and the whole cast was just absolutely lovely.

Cristin Milioti

Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.

Les Claypool

As he left Yata’s home that morning, he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams. For a moment he allowed himself to feel regret at the thought of never building a...

Finnikin of the Rock

- When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday. - Peruvian Marching Powder. A stimulant that has the extraordinary effect that the more you do, the more you laugh out of context. - When everything you laugh at is miserable an...

The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star

You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies and I still don't know which is which. Children are born innocent. At birth we ar...

The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star

The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teac...

In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language

No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interacti...

An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

Rocket Fever Grips Nation's Teenagers' cheers on enthusiastic newsreel, reflecting the nation's sudden reversal in attitude following the successful launch of Explorer-I into Earth orbit. Rather than being strange and threatening, outer space looks s...

Welcome to Mars: Politics, Pop Culture, and Weird Science in 1950s America

Their bodies lay flatly on the rocks, and their eyes regarded him with evil interest: but it does not appear that Mr. Fison was afraid, or that he realized that he was in any danger. Possibly his confidence is to be ascribed to the limpness of their ...

H.G. Wells