Rock Quotes
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Family has always been very important to my life. Even though I make my living as an artist, my creativity is merely a fantasy world. Having a close family has been a stabilizing rock for me.
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The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.
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Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band. I would say that at least 80 percent of my energy was involved with whatever band I was involved in.
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Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, it became, 'Now I'm going to force my entire family to watch me perform all these rock songs.'
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My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.
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People are used to seeing kids jump around. You know, the target audience, the audience that's spending money on music, like rock and hip-hop - they're used to seeing people get really physically involved in their music.
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In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.
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My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and a Gibson solid-body like an SG or a Les Paul. It contains all sounds of the basic classic rock n' roll guitars. It does what I want it to do.
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I often joke that I've just become a professional schmoozer. Like, nobody cares how well I can rock climb anymore. It just has to do with how well I can schmooze.
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I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.
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I used to always rock a cap when I was in high school and get them taken away. It was an excessive amount. Like, so often that, at the end of each school year, there would be a box of all the confiscated caps. After they gave back a few caps to other kids, they would just give me the box because the rest were all my hats.
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I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!
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I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.
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Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.
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We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those people that are interested in good rock n' roll music.
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Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.
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I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got 'Community.' It's like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit.
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I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.
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I have always believed that there is nothing greater than a life in rock n' roll - it has to be good rock n' roll - and I still think it is true.
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This isn't meant to make me sound interesting and rock 'n' roll, but I wouldn't want to live with me a lot of the time.
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I wanted to find a bridge between Musique Concrete, electro-acoustic music, and proper rock music.
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Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.
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Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.
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Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.
