Top 1200 Classic Rock Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

My style motto is pretty classic: you give off a positive energy when you wear what you're most comfortable in.

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.

One Christmas, Dennis Dermody, the movie critic of 'Paper,' gave me 'Rock Hudson: A Gathering of Friends,' the master invitation list from Rock Hudson's memorial service. It's so great. Everyone's in it, with personal addresses all bound into a book. Someone else once gave me Ike Turner's will. I get great stuff.

That's the classic nature of people, though. We'll skip the basics and get pissed when the sexy stuff doesn't work.

I'm a country singer, and I'm comfortable with that. But why does a country singer have to play only on country radio or a rock singer only on a rock station? I still don't understand why it's that big a deal.

Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.

When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.

I was trained at classical piano as a youngster back in PA. To rebel, I bought a drum set and played in some rock & roll bands. In college I picked up a guitar and became obsessed with practicing which led to playing guitar in indie rock bands in the mid 90's. Which led me to Los Angeles.

I wanted to establish my musical legacy and honor the classic sound of flamenco in the most traditional sense.

It would be a dream come true to appear on Turner Classic Movies with Robert Osborne, who is one of my heroes.

Jaws' was a big one. It's a classic. The shark not working while making that movie made it much better.

I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.

Prior to the Cruiserweight Classic, I had a tryout with WWE in 2013 and was told that I wasn't what they were looking for at the moment.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

I'm a classic cheddar man, I really do like it, though I don't mind a good Stilton or blue cheese.

Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock of God's promises, and it was indeed a precious resting place, but now I rest in His grace. He is teaching me that the bosom of His love is a far sweeter resting-place than even the rock of His promises.

I think the old classic Porsches are fantastic, with those lovely curved lines, but I don't like the modern ones at all.

I think a season of 'Atlanta' bounces back between classic sitcom structure and genre movies.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Rock 'n' roll guitar came from blues guitar. It was the blues guys who first turned the amp up and started whacking on the Stratocaster and a Les Paul. It wasn't the country guys and it wasn't the white guys; it was the Blues guys. That's where the real fire is in all of this rock and roll music.

We moms are beautiful both with and without makeup, but I always love classic colors I can mix with anything.

I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year.

To tell you the truth, the nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame totally surprised me. I had no idea that was coming. I know a lot of people like to say it's enough just to be nominated. But I've been nominated for so many things, I'd like to get this one. I think it's a long shot, considering I never had a No. 1 rock n' roll record.

It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.

The problem we have is that, some people call it 'too rock' to play on a jazz station, and it's 'too jazz' to play on a rock station. So it's difficult. It's difficult to make it playing this kind of music.

I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative.

Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.

If you take a song like 'We Will, We Will Rock You,' 'You got blood on your face... ' - he's rhyming on that! And if you take the lyrics out of that song, you get a hip-hop beat. It's a rock song, though. So it's not out of my element for me to get with Black Lips.

People will come at me telling me to wear this or wear that. If I don't like it, I don't like it. They couldn't pay me to wear it. If it's something I can rock with, I'll rock it. I'm more interested in being completely authentic to me. In my opinion, being myself is making a statement.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

I never considered myself part of rock 'n' roll. My stuff was more adult. It was more difficult for teenagers to relate to; my stuff was filled with more despair than anything you'd associate with rock 'n' roll. Since I couldn't see people dancing, I didn't write jitterbugs or twists. I wrote rhythms that moved me. My style requires pure heart singing.

I just think that the question of women in rock or women playing guitar, I just think it's such a non-issue, and I think that probably the sooner critics and press outlets can just erase the 'what's it like being a women in rock?' question from their vocabulary, the better off everyone will be.

We just forced them into tough shots that whole overtime. It was a classic five minutes that we needed.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable...Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way.

I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

It's good to see the Capri and the XR3i now joining the pantheon of classic popular production cars.

Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived.

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

Even as exuberant as my style is and as over the top as I may be, I can appreciate a classic when it's really well done.

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!

I love every single genre from documentaries, horror, comedy, drama, '80s, classic, I have it all.

The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.

If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'

Vampires are handy characters, as they can do double duty as monster/villains and the classic, misunderstood romantic hero.

I like to do a little bit of boldness but mixed in with a classic look. You don't have to do something crazy to stand out.

Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

Kevin Garnett did the classic hold me back but fall away at the same time.

I call my style Classic Americana Swag. I do my vibe, and I'll throw in a cool sneaker here or there, a pair of Js.

I THINK ITS COOL THAT OTHER CROWDS LIKE WHAT I DO. HOWEVER IVE ALWAYS HAD A GOOD MIX OF PEOPLE AT MY SHOWS. I STARTED DOING THINGS ON RADIO ON ROCK MARKETS AND ALTERNATIVE MARKETS. IVE ALWAYS BEEN A COUNTRY TYPE ACT HOWEVER I STARTED WITH THE ROCK MARKET. IM VERY INTERCHANGEABLE.

I broke pretty much every rule of classic game design and tried to invent new ones.

When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die.

If I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's role.

When I did play team sports, I was into soccer and hockey. I loved hockey. And then rock climbing became the thing that got me out of Iowa, and I traveled the world for rock climbing. I really loved the, I guess you would say, dirtbag lifestyle of not eating much and traveling the world and slipping into different cultures and just observing.

With classic sitcoms like MASH, the characters all drove each other crazy, and that's what you loved to see.