Funky Phrases

Phrases

• A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
• All that jazz
• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• As hard as a rock
• As solid as a rock
• Ayers Rock (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Between a rock and a hard place
• Bless my soul
• Body and soul
• Brevity is the soul of wit
• Close enough for jazz
• Confession is good for the soul
• Country rock
• Crocodile Rock (Elton John song)
• Don't rock the boat
• Ear for music
• Elevator music
• Face the music
• Fuel for the Soul (Pontiac advertising slogan)
• Get down
• Get down and get funky
• Glam rock
• God rest his soul
• He's on the jazz. (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• Heart and soul
• Heavy rock
• Hey, Soul Sister (Train song)
• Hip and happening
• Hip hip hooray
• Hip hop
• Hit me on the hip
• Hit rock bottom
• House music
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• I Wanna Rock And Roll All Night (Kiss song)
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• It's Only Rock And Roll, But I Like It (Rolling Stones song)
• Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley song)
• Jazz it up
• Jazz it up! (Zattaran's Rice Products advertising slogan)
• Joined at the hip
• Keep body and soul together
• Let's face the music and dance
• Let's rock (A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children)
• Life and soul of the party
• Like a rock (Bob Seeger song title and Chevrolet Trucks advertising slogan)
• Lost soul
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• Music Box (Mariah Carey album)
• Music City (Nickname of Nashville Tennessee)
• Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
• Music is art. Muzak is science (Muzak Corporation advertising slogan)
• Music to my ears
• No music, no life (Tower Records advertising slogan)

• Northern soul
• Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he (line from nursery rhyme)
• One two three o'clock four o'clock rock
• Party Like a Rock Star (Shop Boyz song)
• Party Rock Anthem (LMFAO with Lauren Bennett and GoonRock song)
• Popular music
• Prepare to rock
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Rock And Roll Dreams Come True (Meatloaf song)
• Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley song)
• Rock With The Caveman (Tommy Steele song)
• Rock Your Baby (George McCrae song)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rock and boulder (Cockney rhyming slang for shoulder)
• Rock and roll
• Rock bottom
• Rock god
• Rock of ages
• Rock on
• Rock solid
• Rock the vote
• Rock your world
• Rubber Soul (Beatles album)
• Sell your soul to the devil
• Sex and drugs, and rock and roll
• Shoot from the hip
• Soul brother
• Soul food
• Soul man
• Soul searching
• Soul sister
• Soul train
• Strut your funky stuff
• Sweet Music (Nickname of Frank Viola)
• Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing (ABBA lyric)
• The Dome of the Rock (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The Godfather of Soul (Pseudonym of singer James Brown)
• The Hustle (Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony song)
• The Jazz Singer (Al Jolson movie)
• The King of Rock 'N' Roll (Nickname of Elvis Presley)
• The Rock (Nickname of Marcel Desailly)
• The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The best way to get music out of your system (Philips advertising slogan)
• The eyes are the windows of the soul
• The music of the spheres
• There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer (ABBA lyric)
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• We Will Rock You (Queen song)
• With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes (line from nursery rhyme)
• Without music, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• World music
• You rock!
• You're My Heart, You're My Soul (Modern Talking song)