Rock Quotes
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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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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.
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We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.
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Ad Rock from the Beastie Boys gave me a present: it's a boombox with a keyboard and a beatbox in it. You can't make that up.
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The early parodies that talk-show people did of rock n' roll in the '50s were terrible. They didn't know it, they didn't like it - and that's a lethal combination.
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My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.
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When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with; the girls didn't think we were cool, although they did a few years later. We had ducktails and wore peg-leg pants. We looked like rock n' rollers.
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Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!
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When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.
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I really like Deadmau5 and Coyote Kisses. And Foo Fighters too, I like rock.
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I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.
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I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.'
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Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
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When rock roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.
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I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.
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The Rolling Stones were one of the best bands ever, and 'Sticky Fingers' is one of the best rock albums I've ever heard.
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It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.
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I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else.
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Me and the Rock do look a lot alike, and we're a similar build - that was a joke, by the way.
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Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too many people who agreed with each other.
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Iggy Pop is a pure Michigan product - gritty, smart, but not afraid of looking stupid or foolish. His father was once a high school English teacher. I love Iggy as a physical entity, sinewy, twisty - even in old age - an embodiment of rock and roll history.
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There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock beneath him.
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Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.
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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.
