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I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'. — David Bowie

I ... am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air. — John Muir

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple. — John Lennon

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. — John Lennon

I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B. — John Oates

Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army. — John Belushi

You go see 'Timothy Green,' and tell me if it doesn't rock your world. I loved it. I loved every frame of it. — John C. McGinley

The guy who could be me, but he knows when to draw the line, is John Cena. John Cena can rock 'n' roll, let me tell you. — Ric Flair

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar. — John Mellencamp

This Fruity Pebble that ya dealin' with, I ain't ya average jabroni. I'm like a big purple pinwheel, Rock, so go ahead and blow me. — John Cena

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was. — John Darnielle

Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song. — John Mellencamp

A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock. — John C. Calhoun

Everyone should be encouraged ... in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll. — John Cale

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. — John Mellencamp

The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping. — John Naisbitt

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science ... but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures. — John Ambrose Fleming

I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat. — John Swartzwelder

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true. — James Taylor

Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. — John Gay

I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on. — John Belushi

I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen. — Ian Axel

I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down. — Elton John

I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality. — Elton John

Nobody likes to hear a f**king rock star talk about his problems — John Rzeznik

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck. — John Dryden

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star. — Elton John

You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart. — John Cho

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore. — John Hillaby

This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll. — John Mellencamp

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience — Anthony Kiedis

When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock — John B. Keane

You are a river rock and belong in a stream - not here in this upper room sinking in my bed ... — John Geddes

Kid, you'll be fine. — Neil Hilborn

I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop. — Johnny Marr

Build your house on the rock of learning; no one can take your education away from you. — John Spence

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band. — John Coltrane

I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll. — Elton John

For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing. — John Lydon

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played. — John Fogerty

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'. — John Lennon

The victim had been John Lewis, the theology student. He had been attacked by thugs in a white restroom in Rock Hill, South Carolina. — Ken Follett

It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve Allen Show that got me into rock music. — Elton John

Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock. — John Ridley

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong. — John Prine

Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened. — John Oates

Pope John Paul II stands like a rock against all opposition in his clear enunciation of the foundational principles of the Christian faith. — Pat Robertson

Build on the rock before you hit rock bottom! — John Bytheway

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started. — John Oates

Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding. — John Lennon

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification. — John Frusciante

There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination. — John Mellencamp

Link Wray and Gene Vincent ... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll. — John Lennon

I've always liked funk and rock and everything. — John Otto

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world. — John Petrucci

What I love about being a member of KISS is that we're the 'John Glenns' of rock - we always have to be the first in anything we do, and I love that. — Peter Criss

The Slave master named Mahmel Was a nasty kind of thug, so Stiggy dropped a rock on him and squashed him like a bug. — John Flanagan

Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years. — John Grogan

I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money
but that's all the same thing, really. — John Lennon

Rock 'n' roll started to make so much money and generated so much income for the record companies that suddenly it was no longer evil. — John Landis

Noah St. John, bad buy of rock and concerned father of imaginary daughters. Hell hath frozen over and become an ice ring. — Nalini Singh

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds. — John Anderson

Daniel Ek, the C.E.O. of Spotify, is a rock star of the tech world, but he is not long on charisma. — John Seabrook

Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 — John Sandford

Oprah is so rich, I saw John Kerry proposing to her. — Chris Rock

As Thomas Jefferson proclaimed, "In matters of fashion, swim with the current. In matters of conscience, stand like a rock. — John C. Maxwell

Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love. — John Dyer Baizley

In the '60s, I used to love rock magazines; I'd cut out pictures of Bob Dylan and John Lennon. — Patti Smith

I like rock & roll, and I don't like much else. — John Lennon