Anna Sui Quotes
I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed.
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Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
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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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My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.
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I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.
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I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.
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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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In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
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Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.
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I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.
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You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
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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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The selections on 'Daily Practice' are all what I consider standard rock songs that have been absolutely essential to keeping me alive.
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I like to wear girlie things, but only if I can rock them up with biker boots or a jacket.
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I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.
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I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed.
