Rock Quotes
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In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.
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Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.
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Even in film, books, and music, there's always action - there's always rock and roll. Young people appreciate that kind of experience.
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I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.
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We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be a rock band if we need to be.
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There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.
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In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.
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Oh, I love Rock to death, man. He doesn't inspire me as an actor but, I mean, come on.
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If I fuckin' die without having written two, three, or four brilliant rock songs... I don't know why I lived my life.
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The major rock instruments and classical instruments were designed for performance, for sharing the music with an audience, and then later people put microphones on them and recorded them. But for electronic music, the opposite was true - they're designed in laboratories, and later, we tried to put them on stage.
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Johnny Cash's legacy, I think if it was one word, it would be 'integrity.' He was the original wild man and grew from that guy that was doing all the crazy things that you read that rock n' rollers do to being someone who was like the father of our country, you know. He was a guest at the White House. He was Billy Graham's friend.
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It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.
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Rolling Stone magazine would not say anything positive about me, and they were the tastemakers at the time. There were people from the old guard who insisted I wasn't a real rock and roller. Well, O.K., fine -- I'm not a real rock and roller. You got me.
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All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.
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I don't think anyone can call a movie like 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' a horror movie. It's a jolt. It's a series of jolts followed by a quick one-liner that's wallpapered with an MTV rock & roll soundtrack. That's not horror to me.
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We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, And then we'll take it higher.
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Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
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Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.
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We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time.
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I love '80s rock music. I was fascinated with Stevie Nicks when I was growing up.
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My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.
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We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.
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Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
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I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... going rock climbing together... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.
