Rock Quotes
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The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.
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It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.
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When you truly understand one thing—a hawk, a juniper tree, a rock—you will begin to understand everything.
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I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
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You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.
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Progressive rock to us is extended song form. It allows us to develop themes and an album in our genre could be likened to a writer writing a novel rather than a short story.
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Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
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I think that with the success of, like, VH1's 'Behind The Music' and stuff like that, the fact that it's so successful, it's clear that people are interested in rock lives.
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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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Way to rock lil' homie. Much Love.
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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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A small rock holds back a great wave.
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The first thing that inspires me is my mood, but I take inspiration from a lot of things: a rock song, a romantic movie or a specific lifestyle, like 1960s London and, of course, Italian 'dolce vita!'
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I don't think I would live very long if I was a rock star.
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Bringing people together is one of my favorite things... I believed that's what a rock 'n' roll Jesus would really do - bring people together through music.
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There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.
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My dad's family was from Tennessee. I grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia, where we lived at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. As a kid, I was totally into Southern rock. Lynyrd Skynyrd. ZZ Top. It was so part of who I was.
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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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We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!
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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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I feel like I'm a rock artist. I don't feel like I'm a pop artist. And I'm alt rock. I'm indie rock. I'm punk rock. Because it comes from the pots and pans. It's a lot of me, but I've got multiple personalities.
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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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A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.
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Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs.
