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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I auditioned for 'Game of Thrones' seven times! Loads of times.
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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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When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
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The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.
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Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced.
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I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.
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Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.
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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?
