Rock Quotes
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I thought I'd be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind of allowed me to have this whole new confidence and this whole new swagger and this whole new sense of self. It kind of brought out the inner rock star in me. I had never dyed my hair like that, and no one forgot me after that.
Candice Accola
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I just cut songs I love and that represent what I want to say. And if it crosses over, that's very flattering. It's cool to know that with people listening to rock and rap, I'm sitting on their iPods along with that stuff.
Luke Bryan
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If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.
Daron Malakian
System Of A Down
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All we have is the past, but for people of the future, there's not even going to be a history there. The history of recorded music has turned into a flat fucking screen of an iTunes playlist. I'm preserving something that's going extinct! That's all rock'n'roll has been since day one. It's all necrophilia.
Ariel Pink
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Rock is much more malleable than ideas.
Kim Stanley Robinson
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To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.
Penn Jillette
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First the masters died, now their music is dying, because people only want to listen to pop, rock, and punk.
Elfriede Jelinek
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I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.
Brian Molko
Placebo
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The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory.
Brendan I. Koerner
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I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Southern rock, classic rock.
Big Smo
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A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.
Joan Jett
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Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands.
M. Shadows
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Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
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We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.
Jonathan Cain
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Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.' Just the other day, I was having lunch with my mom, and she said, 'You've taught me so much. You are so resilient.'
Adrienne Bailon
3LW
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I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.
Rivers Cuomo
Weezer
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Whichever chord progressions move me, whether it's rock, jazz, doo-wop or soul, I'm going to put it together and not be worried about whether people can put it in a lane or not.
Andra Day
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Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.
Bill Griffith
