Cbgb Quotes

• I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

  Alan Rickman

  Art, Boys, Police

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• I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place.

  Henry Rollins

  Dream, Missing, Stills

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• When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous.

  Moby

  New York, Growing Up, Artist

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.

  Dave Grohl

  New York, Rocks, Cities

  "Good Charlotte, Audioslave, Blink-182 weight on CBGB's plight as deadline looms". www.mtv.com. August 29, 2005.

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• Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television.

  Michael Stipe

  Sex, Rocks, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• CBGB was a wild place, ... The first time I ever played there was in 1987, I think, with my hardcore band, Scream. And I remember the craziest [thing] about that club was you could be in
  front of the stage and it could be louder than any show you've ever been to in your life. But if you were towards the back of the club at the bar, you could sit and have a conversation with
  someone. It was the weirdest thing to me.

  Dave Grohl

  Thinking, Wild Places, Bars

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• When I was 16, I was in Boston and some friends said, 'You want to go to New York?,' I went with my roommate... These guys said, 'We're going to this club. Just don't go in the washroom.' It was CBGB. I had no idea what it was or the history of all the music. All I knew was this was my first 21-and-over club and I managed to get in!

  Stana Katic

  New York, Boston, Ideas

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• We were a really crazy band. This was in '73. I had my hair real short with a white stripe down the middle of my head. The guitarists had pink hair. We weren't playing CBGB's either, we were playing Statesborough, Georgia, for cowboys on penny beer night. We used to keep crowbars onstage when fights would break out. Those were really wild times.

  Rex Smith

  Crazy, Real, Fighting

  "New again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2015.

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• Just selfishly, I wanted to be associated with something as synonymous with cool and cutting edge and artistic as CBGB. People are aware of that, at least, even if nothing else. That's something to be proud of, to be a small part of the association with something like that.

  Johnny Galecki

  Cutting, People, Proud

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that music is a very, very powerful thing, especially when you have a movement like this [CBGB club] to shed new light on music and the power of it.

  Ashley Greene

  Powerful, Thinking, Light

  "Ashley Greene and Johnny Galecki Talk CBGB, the First Concerts They Ever Went To, Working with Alan Rickman, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 9, 2013.

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• That was an amazing time period [ CBGB filming] to transport to during filming - the clothes, the music, the lifestyle - it really helps to get into character when there's so much that changes from the moment you step onto the set.

  Ashley Greene

  Character, Clothes, Steps

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.

  James Iha

  Jobs, Nyc, Firsts

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