Rock Quotes
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Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
Hank Ballard
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When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.
Frank Iero
My Chemical Romance
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My whole life, I've loved '80s synth and goth rock like The Sisters of Mercy and Depeche Mode.
Andy Biersack
Black Veil Brides
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The first day I was in a daze thinking, ‘What am I doing? What’s my role?’ and then slowly we started writing with each other, and it was great. It took me way back to my high school days when I was playing in a rock band.
A. R. Rahman
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When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music.
John Roy Anderson
Yes
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You get to choose how you perceive your reality. So why, when it comes to perceiving yourself, would you choose to see anything other than a super-huge rock star of a creature?
Jen Sincero
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I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.
Ian Rankin
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Being a classical musician, you can go to school for it; you can go get a degree. Even as a composer, there is a certain career path you can follow, but becoming a rock musician is a much more elusive career. How do you learn that or do that?
Bryce Dessner
The National
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I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.
Kristine Opolais
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I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative rock bands of that day: we did a Jane's Addiction song and a Faith No More song. All the kind of alternative radio of that time, the late '80s, basically.
Jason Mantzoukas
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I'm introverted, and I pay attention to my muse... Record companies used to go mad and say 'We don't know the deal with you. You have no continuity at all. You give us 'Addicted to Love,' and you're a rock n' roll star, then you give us 'She Makes My Day,' and what's that?' But that was a hit, too. It either gets across or it doesn't.
Robert Palmer
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With *NSYNC, we shopped our deal for a year in America, sang a capella in everybody's office, then moved to Germany for almost two years and became popular there. A guy representing a rock band came to our show in Budapest, saw 60,000 people get excited for a band from America that nobody in America knew, and told someone at RCA.
JC Chasez
NSYNC
