Rock Quotes
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Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
Aaron Johnson
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Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.
Lance Loud
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We weren't kids, and not too many odds were in our favor, ... We didn't look the part of a rock group by any stretch. We played the Copa, and Walter Winchell said it was a good show but that we looked like two bookies, a jockey and a basketball player!
Bob Gaudio
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People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.
Hayley Williams Paramore
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It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.
Van Morrison
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Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
Tanya Tucker
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We never saw ourselves as a rock group.
Irmin Schmidt Can
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The Rock: And I quote: You know your damn role and Shut Your Damn Mouth!
Dwayne Johnson
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
Jack Black
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After 7 long years, Finally, FINALLY, FINALLY, The Rock has come back to Anaheim! Which means FINALLY, The Rock has come back to Monday Night Raw! Which means FINALLY, The Rock HAS COME BACK... home.
Dwayne Johnson
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
Rachel Stevens
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Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.
Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
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'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
Iggy Pop
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She gets rock n roll, a rock n roll stationAnd a rock n roll dream.She's making movies on location.She don't know what it means.But the music make her wanna be the story.And the story was whatever was the song, what it was.Rollergirl don't worry.D.J. plays the movies all night long.
Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
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I'm actually recording my second album now.... so I've just been recording and co-writing. The single should be coming out soon, but I feel it's pretty much 80 percent done. And, yeah, I'm excited about it. It's a lot more rock and edgier..
Ashley Tisdale
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Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?
Bon Scott
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Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.
Brandon Thomas
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
B. B. King
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
Felicity Jones
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They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.
Freddy Fender
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We've all kinds of kinds of hells and damns in country. But we don't have that other. We haven't progressed that far yet or degenerated. Who knows? . . . There are a few that are trying it. It's true. Some of these guys say it 500 times. I said (to Kid Rock), "how many times do you say it on an album -- 500 times? He just has that little grin.
Hank Williams
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I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
Edgar Winter
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Steve Van Zandt is a very intelligent, smart guy. He's a historian, he knows a lot about rock n' roll, a lot about music.
Frank Vincent