Rock Quotes
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Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It's the music of our time, and it's 'in the air,' as Steve Reich would say. My experience of it is just really direct because I'm actually playing in a collaborative band.
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One doesn't have to sit through exams and go to universities to play rock n' roll.
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I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on.
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People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.
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If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.
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Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.
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The patron saint of outlining - the bespectacled siren who sings to me from his spotless rock - is P. G. Wodehouse.
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I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.
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I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums, and I'm a wedding singer on the side; that's my parallel career. So I love all those aspects of making music.
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My grandma is kind of a rock star. She goes to France and all over.
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It's something I've always been passionate about - which is the power of rock and roll itself. I'm a walking example of its power, 'cause I was totally altered in the seminal years of Live by bands like U2 and R.E.M., U2 in particular.
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Be YOU. Don't be someone else. YOU are a unique individual. Be proud... rock it loud.
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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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I wanted to find a bridge between Musique Concrete, electro-acoustic music, and proper rock music.
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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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I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.
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I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.
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I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I wanted to be a pop star. This was in the late '80s. And mostly, I wanted to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.
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I love punk rock, but I also love metal.
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There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.
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I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.
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It's weird but I've never really been the type to have fixations on the leading man actor. I've always been drawn more to the rock star. I love a guy on the microphone commanding an audience.
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There are so many different musicians I look up to for different reasons - from hip-hop to rock to pop. Some are Alanis Morissette, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Beyonce, Lil Wayne.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
