Jack McDevitt Quotes
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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.
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When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.
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Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
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I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
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What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.
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Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.
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In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.
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When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.
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I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
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Come one, come all! This rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I.
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I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.
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Well, on tour I eat terribly, so I balance that by running a lot. And then I started to run with my fans in certain cities. It sounds very nerdy and un-rock n' roll, but I like it. It's fun, and it's better than meeting fans in weird, awkward circumstances. So I take them running with me.
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I don't want to be a rock star all my life.
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I began tailoring my books to cater to one or another universe of readers. I found it incredibly boring; and frankly, it felt stultifying. I'd previously been in advertising. I felt if I was going to create something to fit a specific market, I might as well have stayed with advertising.
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There's a horrible stereotype of both the romance writer and the romance reader as somehow undereducated and unprofessional, when in fact there are a number of incredibly well-educated professional women who have chosen to leave their other careers and go into writing romance.
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If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.
