Rock Quotes

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

Stand, Style, Matters

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
Kurt Cobain

Jail, Throw, Illegal

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain

Freedom, Pain, Saying

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
John Lennon

Jesus, Popular, Argue

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
John Lennon

Jesus, Popular, Roll

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers

Art, Nice, Saying

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
John Lennon

Give, Another, Might

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
John Lennon

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus

Thought, Reason, Hopeless

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.
Eminem

Funny, Tough, Everyone

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
Jimi Hendrix

Fun, Empty, Filling

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa

Talk, Write, Read

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Frank Sinatra

Ugly, Desperate, Hear

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

Time, Angry, Person

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.
Charlie Sheen

Time, Help, Friends

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes, Write, Rule

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Keith Richards

Music, Guitar, Point

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Time, Guy, Boat

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.
Freddie Mercury

Star, Won, Legend

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

Family, Works, Steady

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Single, Him, Moment

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
Keith Richards

Forget, Problem, Everyone

The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
Bill Copeland

Time, Boat, Seldom

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. Rowling

Life, Fear, Greatest

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
Elvis Presley

Music, Help, Happens

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.
Andrew Jackson

Bible, Republic, Rests

I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.
Ron White

Great, Live, Star

The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
P. J. O'Rourke

Country, Hell, Religious

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
Bono

Change, Fun, Two

I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.
Ted Nugent

Good, Bad, Political

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