Rock Quotes
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When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music.
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Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.
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Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I'll try to bring it to the light if I can.
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My iPod will shuffle from rap to pop to rock to classical ... It gets confusing!
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I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I'm sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture.
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All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.
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I don't really go out to clubs, but if I did, I'd just want to go rock out with my mates or whatever.
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How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.
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I don't want to be a rock star all my life.
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If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
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Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.
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Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board.
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I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.
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For a composer of concert music, 40 is actually very young. But for a rock musician, 40 is almost past due, where you think of rock music as really part of more youth-oriented culture.
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Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else.
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I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B.
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Chris Rock is a good friend of mine, and he is hysterical.
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The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
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An attack on the scale of Sept. 11 would rock the markets and the economy.
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We live in a world of empty spectacle, the world of spectacle rock, songs you can't remember, it's all about the expression of money, power and kind of empty and fascistic. Where technology has changed society, where people are not using their brains as much, not seeing the bigger picture but constantly looking down at the cellphone and not seeing the bigger picture. Today's songwriter need to be on outside, find their own trip if you will and find a way to connect from a place that no one has heard before. It might be taken as weird but that is what makes it unique.
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The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start a band if you didn't know how to play an instrument. But when punk happened it was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter if you can play or not. Go ahead, make a band.' And that's exactly what the Go-Go's did.
