Rock Music Quotes - Page 4

• I am very proud of the fact that 20 years  on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of 'Meat is Murder'. “I think that is quite literally rock music changing someone's life - it's certainly changing the life of animals. It is one of the things I am most proud of.

  Johnny Marr

  Animal, Thinking, Rocks

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• That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, Musician, Unpredictable

  Source: collider.com

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• In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.

  Taylor Hawkins

  Hate, Rocks, Hands

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• Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Tim F. LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Spirit-Filled Family”, Harvest House Pub

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• I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

  David Bowie

  Rocks, Wanted

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

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• That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles.

  Dave Koz

  Beautiful, Rap, Rocks

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. January 22, 2016.

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• Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

  Christopher Guest

  Jealous, Rocks, Self

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• Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Home, Rocks, People

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Thinking, Rocks, Play

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• Rock music is stronger than sports. That's why. Rock rules. Around the world, who's more famous: Willie Mays or Paul McCartney?

  George Thorogood

  Sports, Rocks, Stronger

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

  Belinda Carlisle

  Mean, Rocks, Dinosaurs

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• It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.

  Travis Barker

  Rapper, Rocks, Fool

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• I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.

  Black Francis

  Rocks, People, Judging

  "Pixies Interview". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. July 6, 2009.

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• When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15.

  Juanes

  Crazy, Rocks, Years

  "Colombian Singer Juanes Is a Savvy Businessman". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 26, 2007.

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• I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.

  Steve Vai

  Successful, Rocks, Insane

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

  Mary Timony

  Rocks, Derivatives, Boring

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• Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to dance to in the club and the repetitiveness, whereas in rock music there is literally, like, balls-to-the-wall singing and playing. I love it.

  Julianne Hough

  Wall, Rocks, Singing

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel that way at all. I just think it's different. It's different. There's rock music, there's jazz music, there's reggae music: All of those forms are different.

  Brian Regan

  Dirty, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.

  Ryan Adams

  Country, Song, Rocks

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.

  Neil Tennant

  Change, Spring, Rocks

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

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• With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to record an album. But for a hip-hop song, you can create a track and an idea with verses and choruses in a day, and get three different people on it. It seems like you're able to do more with hip-hop.

  Travis Barker

  Song, Ideas, Rocks

  Source: www.complex.com

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• There's more to life than listening to rock music.

  Black Francis

  Rocks, Listening, More To Life

  "Pixies Interview". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. July 6, 2009.

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• I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

  Wayne Coyne

  Art, Thinking, Rocks

  "Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Talks ATP". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. August 27, 2009.

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• I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

  Ariel Pink

  Real, Rocks, Self

  "Ariel Pink" by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2014.

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