Rock Quotes
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A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don't expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you're a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.
Tove Lo
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I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.
Jeffrey Ross Hyman
Ramones
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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.
Chuck Eddy
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When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
Garry Trudeau
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They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'
William Broad
Generation X
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Dom wants to be a stadium rock drummer and have a sweat towel tech...
Matt Bellamy
Muse
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I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
Fran Drescher
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The point is that, like Richard Hell says, rock 'n' roll is an arena in which you recreate yourself, and all this blathering about authenticity is just a bunch of crap. The Clash are authentic because their music carries such brutal conviction, not because they're Noble Savages.
Lester Bangs
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I didn't want to be a rock and roller. I wanted to be a Bobby Darin because he was the epitome of the performer, the sophisticated.
Neil Sedaka
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Something happens when you become an elder rock & roller and you're still functioning. People start to give you awards and recognize achievements. It's the life achievement period of your career.
Geddy Lee Weinrib
Rush
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I ended up doing these other diverse things, but King Tuff is the thing I always wanted to come back to - just good, straightforward rock n' roll. That music is the most me, you know?
King Tuff
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I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
William Broad
Generation X
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If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
Ben Harper
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Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.
Dexter Holland
The Offspring
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Yeah, I could go rock on the back porch and do crossword puzzles - but I've got six kids, ages 9 to 16, and someone in the family should work. That's me.
David Duffield
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
Gavin DeGraw
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You can't stop rock-n-roll!
Dee Snider
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You know, the big Valbowski is a lot like concrete mix. You know? You just get it a little wet, take a step back, and watch it get ROCK HARD!
Val Venis
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My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must be square. So I had to find my own rock n' roll, as it were, and I found it in black soul music.
Robert Palmer
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We'll play somewhere like London, playing to 2,000 people easy, and every time you play with more people, you think, 'You're a rock star,' and it makes you laugh. I guess I am, but I'm also, you know, not.
Kurt Vile
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I think that becoming a successful rock band is a little like becoming a professional athlete. Nobody plans on it.
Bryce Dessner
The National
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It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
Chuck Berry
