Top 1200 Alternative Rock Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.

Used to rock a throwback ballin on the corner, now I rock tailored suit lookin' like a owner.

But today in the United States, and this shows you where fascism REALLY exists, Any doctor in the United States who cures cancer using alternative methods will be destroyed. You cannot name me a doctor doing well with cancer using alternative therapies that is not under attack. And I know these people; I've interviewed them.

Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

I consider myself a rock climber but the definition of rock climbing as has changed.

I grew up going to rock shows, and the lines of rock n' roll cross over with wrestling so much.

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me.

It is said that if one chooses to pray to a rock with enough devotion, even that rock will come alive.

The electric guitar and its players hold a place of privilege in the annals of rock music. It is the engine, the weapon, the ax of rock.

I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs."

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Rock stars against drugs--that's what we want, isn't it? Government-approved rock-n-roll? Woo! We're partying now!

I'm so in tune with rocks and nature. On any rock around the world, if I hurt the rock, I feel like I'm hurting myself.

It's silly to me to not be positive about rock advancing and growing. Really, we just want rock n' roll to be mainstream.

The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace; it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights and liberties can be preserved only by resistance to that which would destroy them. And to defend certain basic God-given rights and liberties is not immoral but righteous.

I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music though.

Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.

I was christened the "British Bulldog" by friends and colleagues who said I not only looked like a bulldog but fought like one. I was more of a fighter than a boxer. The "Blackpool Rock" originated from the fact that previous to becoming a fighter I was employed in the Blackpool Rock Factory, rock being a form of what Americans call candy.

My first album was all rock. I used to sing rock en espanol, but I don't think many people remember that.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

I want to rock till I drop. I love rock and roll music. It keeps you young.

I was born in 1963. So the '70s were my teenage years. As a teenager, I was into rock and roll - Bowie, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, even more progressive music like Genesis, and I was into a lot of British rock and roll. But I loved also American rock and roll. CCR, Jimmie Hendrix, The Doors, Patty Smith, and Bob Dylan.

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

I got really into rock - soft, romantic rock was my jam.

Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

Meghdhanush has brought the newer generation close to folk music with their personal touch of rock and they definitely rock at it.

Everything is winged in this universe, even a rock! When the time comes, rock crumbles into tiny pieces and starts flying in the air!

I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.

When I was a kid, I was interested in folk music. But rock represented power, and I became the best rock guitarist in my school.

Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome... Note how science changed those beliefs when new data became available. Religions stick to the same ancient beliefs regardless of the data.

Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.

Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

Build on the rock before you hit rock bottom!

I never really liked the lyrics or the sameness of the music. It always seemed to have the same rhythm or whatever. But when it turned a little more rock, I kind of liked it. I like what Kid Rock did to country. I like all the modern, new stuff that's coming out, and it just so happens that my boyfriend is not a country player, but he was a rock musician.

It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.

I don't think there's any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, any guitar stuff when you get right down to it - Jimi did it. He's certainly the guy who basically invented the blues-rock genre for guitar players.

It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves

I've always wanted the IQ of a rock. No, wait. That would be an insult to the rock.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it

Rock bands don't really swing... a lot of rock is stiff. They don't understand the feel, the movement, you know, the jungle of it all.

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.

You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.

You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.

One of the first media tours I did was with The Rock - no one knew who I was, as I had just come from WCW; they thought I was The Rock's bodyguard.

"if a rock falls on another rock on the other side of the moon, how does Islam explain it?" "Who Cares?"

My boyfriend isn't a rock star. His values are rock solid. We met at a dinner and he made me laugh.

We search out the most perfect pieces of rock. It's so amazing that these formations are so perfect for climbing on. It's almost as if they were created for climbing. You're taking these random rock formations and you're bringing to it this interaction. It transforms it from being this random rock into almost this piece of art. It's almost like a sculpture or something. Just by finding the handholds, finding that line up the rock. Every climb is different, has its own unique set of movements and body positions. Climbing and my appreciation for nature are totally intertwined.

It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.

I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music, though.

I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist. When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate. So much of modern rock is referencing music from 20 years ago.

I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Southern rock, classic rock.

I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.