Top 1200 Alternative Rock Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Every time a strong wind blows, every sand and dust yearns for being a solid rock and every solid rock longs for flying with the wind!

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.

I don't eat wheat and am into alternative medicines and treatment.

I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music.

I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic.

Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.

I'm an advocate for alternative proteins, and I believe we can eat many.

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

I'm into the old school. I listen to rock, soft rock, jazz, old school R&B.

The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown DJ set, and it wasn't quite rock enough for a rock band. But I guess it's what makes us unique - drawing from a lot of different influences.

The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.

The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled. And he who would climb and live must continuously wage this battle and never let folly win. It's an outrageously demanding proposition. But I never said it was easy.

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

If you take away a rock from a pile of rocks you haven't changed much. It's still a heap of rocks - just a rock or two smaller. Take away a component from the mousetrap and it isn't a mousetrap any more.

I liked a lot of alternative and I like punk stuff.

Eclectic is a word that appears almost as much as the word smarmy in rock journalism and I've come to the fact, just as a personal side, this reminds of Oscar Wilde's insight that criticism is the highest form of autobiography. I think that's exactly what rock journalism has attempted to do, to celebrate its autobiography at my expense.

When you're living the Crunk Rock lifestyle, you don't let anybody tell you what to do. You live your life to the fullest, you live every day like it's your last, and you party like a rock star. It's just a crazy lifestyle.

I love 'Seinfeld.' That was not alternative. You can't get more in mainstream than that.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with; the girls didn't think we were cool, although they did a few years later. We had ducktails and wore peg-leg pants. We looked like rock n' rollers.

A neighbor is a far better and cheaper alternative to government services.

The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

The best writers attempt to become alternative historians.

The underground and the alternative is going to be substituted with being a virus.

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.

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

You got to be just stupid to not be focused on alternative energy.

Did it ever occur to you that there might be more than one alternative?

If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

In Philadelphia, there's no delineation, they address me as Rocky, for real. They'll say things like: "Rocky, do you like this coat?" Or: "Rock, say hi to my sister." Or: "Yo Rock, I know a great restaurant." There's no Sylvester. Even the Mayor goes: "It's good to have Rocky here today."

Alternative accommodations is a $100 billion-plus category.

A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time

When I'm representing my music live I think of it very much in a rock band sense. When I first started doing festivals in the 90s there really weren't other DJs playing the stages I was playing. So I felt I was being afforded an opportunity to kind of make a statement about what DJ music can be live. In the 90s, if you were a DJ you were in the dance tent, and you were playing house music and techno music. There was no such thing as a DJ - a solo DJ - on a stage, after a rock band and before another rock band: that just didn't happen.

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.

Making 13-minute tracks is pretty alternative, I think!

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.

The Democrats right now are living in an alternative universe.

There are some fantastic, brilliant alternative doctors out there.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

The alternative comedy scene is actually pretty small, I guess.

I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we'll get there, and yet there's always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn't been explored.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.

I see 'Ahab's Wife' as offering an alternative vision to

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

The only alternative to soul winning is disobedience to Christ.

You're in for a live band. That's really what I wanted; I wanted to put on a show for people where they could come for the gay and stay for the musicianship. It's a live show; there's some rock stuff, too. Some rock and roll. Get ready.