Top 1200 Alternative Rock Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I came from a private school, and public high school was the first time I ever went to a public school. So I went into it very preppy; I was wearing a lot of Abercrombie and Hollister. Then, my sophomore year, I started listening to rock bands. I had a boyfriend that took me to my first rock show, and I was just addicted to that.

The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

The name Yunupingu means 'rock - rock that stands against time'. The name Yunupingu belonged to my grandad, like he was a hero in his time. It was passed down through the generations to my Father. It's a name that makes us understand who we are, where we're coming from and what our connections are to mother earth and the universe.

Be who you want to be and not care about what others think." -Andy Sixx Rock n roll isn't meant to be taken so seriously, I think sometimes people forget it's meant to be fun. A rock show is meant to be a time for people to have fun and let go of the drudgeries of life.

Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

Most of the people who are given these Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them. But for the Ramones, it really was a symbolic gesture of, 'Yes, you guys are special and are important to rock n' roll.' So in that sense, the Roll Hall of Fame served its purpose.

Some people cannot believe there is an alternative interpretation of the Bible aside from their own.

North Korea cannot change because its people don't realize that there is an alternative to their suffering.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.

"Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

Alternative culture has always had a populace within the black and brown community.

That is to say, Hillary Clinton is not, in my mind, a satisfying or calming alternative to Donald Trump.

I can understand why rock stars are rock stars and why they play in front of people because the buzz that you get is insane. It's probably the same as when you do something on stage and you work off the audience. The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

Republicans with any moral sense are desperate for a supportable alternative to Donald Trump.

You should form your own opinions, and I think that's why social media is good because it's an alternative source of information that can help you form your opinion, that might not be your parents, and might not be what the media is trying to force down your throat. So that's why it's important for artists and musicians to speak up, because for those people who have an inkling that their parents' views aren't right or that their parents don't have any views or whatever, that's an alternative source of information that can help them form their own opinion.

School of Rock. The best music school anywhere. This whole idea of getting kids not just taking lessons and learning notes and chords, but learning songs and playing with other young musicians, and getting out on stage... I was so impressed that my daughter Cheyenne goes to School of Rock on Long Island.

What's interesting about the U.K. is that it celebrates an alternative voice. It's up for telling new stories.

Suddenly, all the giant Hollywood franchises are being driven by alternative filmmakers.

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.

China is a vast, disparate country; there is no alternative to strong central power.

... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock & Roll) ... you can really tell on some tracks ... they were actually afraid at times of what they were playing. But Rock & Roll definitely didn't come before that time; it started right there

You got to look the part. You have to look like all the successful rock bands look. This is what they do. That's never been us. You know, it's a hard game to play: at the end of the day, we are just a rock band and have so many different cultures of music that we have grown up on, because we are fans of all different kinds of music.

There is in the world no rock or tower of such a height that it cannot be scaled by any man (provided he lack not feet) if ladders are placed in the proper position or steps are cut in the rock, made in the right place, and furnished with railings against the danger of falling over. If we examine ourselves, we see that our faculties grow in such a manner that what goes before paves the way for what comes after.

Every time we open our hearts, we create the space for a global alternative.

I worked as a roadie in the rock and roll business which was great fun. Very little money, very little food and the whole thing about the roadie's lifestyle is great because all the groupies have to go through the roadies to get to the rock stars. It's not necessarily true.

Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.

Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors.

Rock n' roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the 'roll' and called it 'rock,' which became a sort of umbrella term for anything with a guitar in it. Like hair bands. How could we possibly believe that? It's just gotten downright silly, to the point where now it's sort of become like professional wrestling.

Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?

I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

We lived out in the middle of nowhere - the most random places - because of my father's work. We spent a lot of time in the car on long drives, just to get anywhere. We listened to oldies rock on the car radio, and the most-played group on oldies rock radio is the Beatles.

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion.

Actors need to be known for having done something, because the alternative isn't so good.

I think I'm needed - as an artist, as an individual, as an entity, an enigma, an exhibitionist, an entertainer - as an alternative.

Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really....

As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.

My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children.

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

Originally, what we call rock 'n' roll was nothing more than an attempt of very bad white performers to sound like black rhythm-and-blues performers. They did their best to emulate, they did their best to paraphrase. And that started what later became rock 'n' roll.

The Alternative Vote is sectarian and self-serving and it will not improve people's lives.

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

You rock so, you rock so, you dip so, you dip so, you skank so, you skank so, and don't be no drag! You come so, you come so, for reggae is another bag!

Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It's a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird.

I think that once the nuclear alternative happens, it's over. At the same time, we have to be prepared.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like the concept of there being no real front person in X, yet this kind of switch up of vocals and really their sheer power, and their ability to sort of bastardise punk rock and midwetsren rock and even country into their own sound.

The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.

I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of '70s hard rock music.

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.