Rock Quotes
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Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.
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There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.
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Rock and roll is here to stay.
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Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.
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I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'
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Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs.
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I feel like the Cal Ripkin of rock n' roll.
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Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.
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We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.
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I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.
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My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.
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We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!
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On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through everything and make something that they believe in or make something that they love or speaks to them personally, that it can cut through the bullshit. But at the same time, the cliches of sincerity can kill that.
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You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.
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I think I have always made really beat-driven pop-rock records.
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It's exciting and refreshing to listen to new rock. And I like a lot of it - Filter, Vertical Horizon, Stabbing Westward... I even enjoy some Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock.
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Bands like R.E.M. and even The Replacements, during that initial wave of college rock, would sell 40, 50, 100,000 copies of a record, and that would be seen as extremely successful - and definitely enough to keep doing more.
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In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.
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I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
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I learned from the guys before me - Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the stage.
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'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.
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I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and, in the end, who is the better man?
