Hard Rock Quotes - Page 2

• I don't know a lot of guys who started out as a hard rock and roller with a white stripe in their hair. Suddenly I do a TV movie and I wake up the next day and I'm a teen idol, like I'd laid on a beach in California all my life waiting for that to happen.

  Rex Smith

  Beach, Hair, Rocks

  "New Again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 20, 1981.

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• I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and rather than just doing one thing when I make an album, the challenge to myself is to write all these diverse tracks, but to make them work. It's like a jigsaw because if you've got a lyrical track going into a hard rock track... it's got to work. You've got to write things that will work together.

  Jack Bruce

  Writing, Rocks, Track

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• Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.

  David Coverdale

  America, Rocks, Media

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• The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can hook a lyric up and a feeling up to something and make the lyric jump into this machine that crushes. That has always been really attractive to me, that kind of power.

  Henry Rollins

  Crush, Rocks, Feelings

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• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Ignorance, Rocks, Enlightened

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• The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Depth, Rolling

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• Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.

  Horace

  Powerful, Blow, Rocks

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• I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

  Gary Cherone

  Rocks, Years, Band

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• McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as matériel, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology. Its symbols are Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Cadillac motorcars hoisted from the roadways, where they once represented a mode of transportation, to the marquees of global market cafés like Harley-Davidson's and the Hard Rock where they become icons of lifestyle.

  Benjamin Barber

  Icons, Rocks, Style

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• Why do I constantly feel as if all of you are speaking a foreign language? What is ‘grabbing a burger at the Hard Rock’ supposed to mean? (Julian) The Hard Rock Café is a restaurant. (Grace) You eat at a place that advertises its food is hard as a rock? (Julian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Rocks, Grace

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• Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Humble, Rocks

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• Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

  Chuck Eddy

  Rocks, Band, Prime

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• We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know?And it was such a turn around, I guess it caught people by surprise.

  Karen Carpenter

  Rocks, People, Surprise

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

  Harry Reid

  Mom, Strong, Dad

  Democratic response to the State of the Union address, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2005.

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• The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.

  Don Bluth

  Running, Sex, Rocks

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

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• The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.

  Izzy Stradlin

  Real, Rocks, Important

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• Mister, I don't want no trouble. I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I don't even know what gingham is, but she goes through about ten rolls a week of that stuff. I ain't looking for no trouble, Mister.

  Bill Hicks

  Kids, Rocks, Wife

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• Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.

  Adam Rich

  Thinking, Rocks, Names

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• You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have all the different genres of music cohabitating the Top 40 - the folk sound, The Beatles, the British sound, the Motown sounds, that kind of light country - it was a welcome relief after a few hard rock records. Everyone was sharing the airwaves, and I think it was a beautiful time for American music.

  Jimmy Webb

  Music, Beautiful, Country

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• I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.

  Mick Mars

  Thinking, Rocks, Guitar

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• I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

  Frances McDormand

  Rocks, Classic, Metals

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• Let me break it down for you again,
  You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine:
  Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.

  Lauryn Hill

  Rap, Rocks, Hip Hop

  Song: Doo Wop

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• I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Rocks, Parent

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• I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

  Gary Carter

  Rocks, Guy, Jazz

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• The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient;
  the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing:
  there is no pain as great as being alive,
  no burden heavier than that of conscious life.

  Ruben Dario

  Pain, Rocks, Tree

  Rubén Darío (2010). “Selected Poems of Rubén Darío”, p.90, University of Texas Press

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