Top 1200 Alternative Rock Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland for about four years playing in indie rock bands. I love and miss being in a band, I still am in a band but pursuing that as a career I definitely missed it but I felt like that ship had sailed.

How dare you little jabroni come onto The Rock shows Smackdown and run your mouth about how your the game, well The Rock says, if you are the game then you quite frankly you need to go back to the drawing board cause your game absolutely sucks!

A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.

Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and neuter. So if you have a genitive present, there's room for everybody to fit in. I just did a project in Vienna about rock, paper, scissor; you change the gender and it simply changes the whole thing. Rock is no longer a male. It doesn't function the same way.

When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and '90s music to Dave Matthews.

Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.

Ring of Honor has always been a company that focuses on youths and being a true alternative.

The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

Do I take alternative points of view? Yes, because all the media are going in another direction.

Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing the great rock that hangs over him in the air and frozen with vain terror. Rather, it is in this life that fear of the gods oppresses mortals without cause, and the rock they fear is any that chance may bring.

The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.

The rich, hearty flavor of portobello mushroom caps are a dynamite alternative to the traditional burger.

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

Soft rock music isn't rock, and it ain't music. It's just soft. Reminds me of something my third-grade teacher said to us. She said, "You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala."

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

I love Nirvana, Joy Division, and New Order - older alternative, I guess.

I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that but in the end I'm just a person. I really don't live like a rock star, economically or socially. I still live a pretty simple life beside the traveling aspect of it.

I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience.

All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

This country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to be rock n' roll and have a rock n' roll attitude. I was fighting my nature by trying to play really hard and sing really hard. But at a certain point, I realized that I loved syrupy pop music with tons of harmony.

I know I express myself best singing love songs, and Jim Steinman gave me my rock style, which I have always wanted. I can express myself best putting a lot of emotion into singing rock songs.

Our society needs to become less fragmented and more open to alternative viewpoints.

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.

My hand landed on a rock, and the gnome landed on it, squashing my thumb between the rock and the gnome. Basically, it was crushed and took the end of my thumb off. I just looked at my hand, and the first thought that flashed into my mind was, 'How on earth am I going to make my devil horn sign now? That's my trademark!'

Mary frowned. A vampire doctor. Talk about exploring your alternative therapies.

The entire country is rallying behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and there is no alternative to Modiji.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.

Efforts must be made to make BSP a viable alternative to form government in the state.

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions.

I can't even go on a spontaneous walk or to a restaurant without armored cars and police, but there is no alternative.

As a child, I had loved history because it showed so many alternative worlds.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

Caring too much could be dangerous; I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.

Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.

This government and the party that I lead will continue to argue an alternative to the Tory-Labour austerity.

Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

I really loved the hardcore alternative vibe Prince had on 'Dirty Mind.'

The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

I tend to pick objectives that I feel are safe because I know that, in the moment, I always go for it. I have some rules for myself, though: Look for the rock faces without a lot of loose rock. Always rope up on glaciers where there is even a slight chance of falling into a crevasse. No pure free soloing. Never climb below hanging glaciers.

What I miss from the States, I guess, is going to museums and to see small rock shows in small bars. We don't have that in Hong Kong. Unfortunately because the property market is so high, all rent is so expensive, they can't afford to have a rock music bar because those things don't make a lot of money, and they're paying a lot of rent.

You face the reality, whether it's hopeful or hopeless. What's your alternative? To lie down and die?

I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment.

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty, the valient little girl's "Ick!"-her tendency to respond, to rock the boat, when someone's actions are really mean, may have been exciese from her behavior, and perhaps from her very mind.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.