Rock Quotes
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Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.
Paul Kantner
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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.
Manika
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I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day
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If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.
Kevin Eubanks
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My mother always has embedded in us that you guys rock in different ways, and to be able to celebrate that with each other is just beautiful.
Alek Wek
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Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!
Lawrence Bender
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'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.
Bruno Mars
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Every time a cool rock chick or actress seems to respect themselves as a strong woman, I'm like, 'Yeah!' And I love them, and they're my girls. And then they start to go downhill and people aren't paying attention anymore. So they start stripping their clothes off, because that's all they have left. I swear to everything I've ever known, I will never do that.
Amy Lee
Evanescence
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I say as long as the individual stays creative and continues to come up with fresh new and exciting ideas, rap will be here. That's established. Simple. As far as what I want to do, I want to get busy, man. I want to rock 60,000 people. I want to rock the Superdome.
LL Cool J
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I don't know what metalcore is. I know what rock n' roll is... It's not rocket science.
Andy Biersack
Black Veil Brides
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I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.
Audrina Patridge
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What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.
Ian Astbury
The Cult
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I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see the singer being real, and exploring, and not doing a rehearsed routine, so I'm just constantly looking for new things to try. I'm really curious out there, and my curiosity has led me into all kinds of bizarre situations.
Rivers Cuomo
Weezer
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Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.
Lauren Worsham
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I've got two lives. Weekends, I go out and play rock star. Weekdays, I play granddad. You can't beat that.
Gary Rossington
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.
Loudon Wainwright III
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I don't have a computer. I'm going to wait until that whole fad is over. I was suckered in on the Pet Rock. Not twice, people.
Kathleen Madigan
