Rock Quotes
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I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.
Roger Glover
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We thought a lot of the heavy metal stuff was ridiculous. And we still do. We didn't want to be Duran Duran either, so we were somewhere in the middle. We always felt a little bit different because we were never really part of any movement. People said what we were doing wasn't pure rock and stuff like that. Then we said, yeah, but what we did was better than pure rock.
Phil Collen Def Leppard
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You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.
Joe Eszterhas
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My big brother listened to classic rock, and I grew up listening to a classic rock station called KSHE.
Louise Post
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BOB SINCLAR ROCK THIS PARTY ME SEH ME WAAN SEE EVERYBODY ON MOVE DOLLARMAN COMING AT YA WE JUST WAAN BIG UP CUTEE B BOB SINCLAR IT'S A DANCE THING, YUH SEE ME IT'S THE WAY JUST BOUNCE EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!
Christophe Le Friant
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I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good. When you look at something that's really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.
Frank Black
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I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.
Steve Perry
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I grew up listening to blues and rock n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.
Ato Essandoh
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Many of us writers tour like a literary Bachman Turner Overdrive. We ain't pretty, but we're on the road. Many of us wish we were rock stars anyway. For my part, I live in my iPod. The musicians there are my constant companions on the road.
Luis Alberto Urrea
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Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
Alessandro Nivola
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Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.
Melanie Fiona Hallim
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I've always been in rock bands. I was in a rock band with my brother in high school. Then I was playing classical guitar recitals, and people said, 'You know, you can't really do both things.' My intuition told me they were wrong. Somehow, what was interesting about me was that I had those two things in my life.
Bryce Dessner The National
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I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.
Stanley Robert Vinton
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When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.
Gavin DeGraw
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I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.
Billy Joel
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If you're wondering what I'm doing here, at a prayer breakfast, well, so am I. I'm certainly not here as a man of the cloth, unless that cloth is leather. It's certainly not because I'm a rock star. Which leaves one possible explanation: I'm here because I've got a messianic complex. Yes, it's true. And for anyone who knows me, it's hardly a revelation.
Bono U2
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I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.
Mel Brooks
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Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.
John Coltrane
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Rock fans are pretty fickle, too, you know.
Bubba Sparxxx
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Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.
Neko Case
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Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians.
Amado Boudou
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When my father passed away, I learned to be unattached to physical things. At a very young age, I was able to roam the world and be emotionally connected but physically disconnected. I'll get homesick in that I miss my mom. My grounding rock is her and my family.
Eiza Gonzalez
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I'm a street player, and all of my influences come from bands that I was listening to at the time when I was growing up. I was very impressed with guys like Mitch Mitchell. I liked rock and roll drummers, and I loved rhythm and blues guys like Clyde Stubblefield with James Brown. Man, that band blew me away all of the time.
Joey Kramer Aerosmith