Top 1200 Classic Rock Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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."

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 believe in classic ideas. They are timeless. They are forever. There are many fads in management.

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.

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.

When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.

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.

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

I'd kind of like to have a classic old muscle car. I think that would be fun.

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

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.

I think the riding uniform has always been so classic, with the britches and the blazers.

I always go with a classic hair look - sleek and to the side - for election coverage.

I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.

Shane was a classic, and you can't find a better bad guy than Jack Palance.

The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

European style is classic, with its own color, and to me, it always feels chic.

Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s.

This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.

I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.

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.

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

Your classic guacamole is just avocados, lime juice, and salt.

I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.

It's not called cocaine any more. It's now referred to as Crack Classic.

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.

I'm increasingly less interested in classic storylines and that arc that we have come to expect.

Bill Clinton is a classic, old-school Southern pragmatic Democrat.

When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different.

Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.

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.

My aesthetic is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple but appreciate the details.

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.

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.

You can't go wrong mixing classic graphics in black and white. It's very Parisienne.

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.

Punk changed everything. It blew away all the dull, pompous stuff that happened before, like glam rock. Kids were getting involved in causes like Rock Against Racism and they needed music that reflected that. Something similar was happening in comedy too, with the Comedy Store and the alternative scene that I got involved in.

Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how Id describe my style.

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.

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

It doesn't matter how fashion or politics changes; you'll never change a classic song.

Frankly, from my perspective, the bomber jacket is such a classic item you can wear it even when it's not on trend.

I think the cool thing about Gap is that it's just such a classic brand.

I think timelessness is a very important factor in whatever I do. That's what makes a classic.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

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 father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances.

The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

I hope our sound has introduced pop fans to classic and vice versa.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

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!'

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!

During my career I've enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.

I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.

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.

I was trained in classic theater, so I love me some good old crying.