Johnny Borrell Quotes
To be fair, I’m sure there were times when I was obnoxious. But that’s rock’n’roll, you know?
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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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Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
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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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
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Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
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I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.
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Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.
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I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.
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After a post-Bill Berry softening with albums like 'Up' and 'Reveal,' R.E.M. seems to be toughening up again; on the strength of the first single, 'Discoverer,' the band's new record looks to continue with the same muscular rock and roll that defined its last album, 'Accelerate.'
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I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.
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My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
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One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.
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Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.
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I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.
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When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.
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I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.
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The new, though engaging at times, may often start as offensive to us. The latter is often proof of the worth of this, while in the long run it will receive more recognition, than some, of what we liked so much in the beginning.
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In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.
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Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times
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I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.
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It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
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I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.
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To be fair, I’m sure there were times when I was obnoxious. But that’s rock’n’roll, you know?
