Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beck

I had long hair when I was a teenager.

Carrie Underwood

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

Bernard Beckett

I write with teenagers in mind.

Alanis Morissette

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

Billy Bob Thornton

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

Ayelet Waldman

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

Catherine Jinks

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

Carter Burwell

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Al Yankovic

It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

Billy Corgan

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

Billy Corgan

We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off.

Bill Dixon

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

Bill Cosby

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.

Bert McCracken

I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.

Carrie Brownstein

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

Art Alexakis

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

Art Alexakis

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

Bertrand Russell

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

Carrie Underwood

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

Bernadette Peters

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

Bill Burr

I don't mind either one [crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch]. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.

Geri Federico

That will be something we will do a lot of is listening to students.

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Michael Jacobson

Listening to them, you would think they want studies done on humans.

Patrick Moynihan

listening to probably the wisest New Yorker that we can know of at this time.

Walter Pater

He seemed to those about him as one listening to a voice, silent for other men

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.