Rock Music Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Let's return to our purity and our idealism while we have this shot.

  Courtney Love

  Country, Art, America

  Courtney Love's address to the Digital Hollywood Online Entertainment Conference in New York City, gos.sbc.edu. May 16, 2000.

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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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• There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

  Marilyn Manson

  Rocks, Albums, Bland

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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 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 grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.

  Mike White

  Religious, Rocks, Grew Up

  Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. October 31, 2005.

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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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• Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for

  Yuja Wang

  Music, Dark, Blood

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• I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, Rocks, Hip Hop

  "Dakota Fanning spills the dirt on kissing Kristen Stewart in ‘The Runaways’". uproxx.com. March 11, 2010.

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• I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

  Rob Chapman

  Rocks, Years, Conservative

  "ROB CHAPMAN (author of “A VERY IRREGULAR HEAD: THE LIFE OF SYD BARRETT”)". Revolt Of The Apes Interview, revoltoftheapes.com. January 25, 2011.

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• Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the movie or not, is just when I come up with the idea itself before I have actually sat down and started writing. I go into my record room... I have a big vinyl collection and I have a room kind of set up like a used record store and I just dive into my music, whether it be rock music, or lyric music, or my soundtrack collection. What I'm looking for is the spirit of the movie, the beat that the movie will play with.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Rocks, Play

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• I don't think rock music has any positive function.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, Rocks, Function

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1987.

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• I don't only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn't want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.

  Mick Jagger

  Rocks, Interesting, Want

  "Pop Music: 10 Questions: Mick Jagger". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. March 31, 1991.

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• I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music though.

  DJ Khaled

  Rocks, Fans, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Here's what I'm going to have to say to all of you. If some of you have demons in your head who talk to you in profanity or whatever, don't let your demon shoot down your rock music, don't let your demon keep you off the joy bus. So like I say, Rock music pays off.

  Wesley Willis

  Rocks, Joy, Pay

  "Live EP". Audio CD, the end, February 20, 2001.

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• I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Rocks

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• Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

  Sean Lennon

  Growing Up, Rocks, Musician

  Interview with Matt Nye, www.pifmagazine.com. January 1999.

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• Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

  Christopher Ricks

  Rocks, Genius, Fields

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• I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist. When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate. So much of modern rock is referencing music from 20 years ago.

  Kele Okereke

  Growing Up, Real, Problem

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve Allen Show that got me into rock music.

  Elton John

  Love You, Rocks, Guitar

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• Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.

  Gary Kemp

  Art, Rocks, Glam Rock

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

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• I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female singers. I like Nirvana, Green Day, System Of A Down. I also like punk rock, and I love bands like Coldplay.

  Avril Lavigne

  Rocks, Singers, Males

  "Avril Lavigne: Teen rocker of 2002". "The Music Room" with Sasha Rionda, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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• Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

  Zubin Mehta

  Rocks, Talent, Music Is

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