Rock Music Quotes - Page 6

• Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Rocks, Anti Religion, Music Is

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• I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music and was just trying to copy what I heard on the radio. And at a very early age I started experimenting with old tape recorders from my parents. I was 11 or 12 at that time and then when I was like 14 or 15 I had a punk band. I made all the classic rock musician's evolutions and then in the early nineties I bought my first sampler and that is how I got into electronic music, because I was able to produce it on my own. That was quite a relief.

  Christian Fennesz

  Rocks, Guitar, Years

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• I don't really listen to rock music anymore. But were I to write a song that sounded like it could be a rock song, I'd probably give it to the Pornographers, and I'd be excited to try to make it work.

  Dan Bejar

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it was done well. So energetically, again I felt like it was in line with punk rock and maybe hard rock, more than it was in line with R&B, which I never really liked.

  Rick Rubin

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Commercial record has never interested me. It's amazing I was in a band like The Police that had such phenomenal commercial success. Part of what made The Police what it was was that we didn't all come in with obvious mainstream musical tastes. We were a rock band and somehow we had to make rock music, but it was informed by a lot of things outside of the mainstream for sure.

  Andy Summers

  Police, Musical, Obvious

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• If you're going for things that are really terrible ideas you have to really have all your faculties about you to get away with them without being crucified. The best rock music gets away with something, somehow, that it shouldn't be allowed to get away with.

  Will Sheff

  Rocks, Ideas, Faculty

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. May 1, 2007.

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• I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

  Hank Azaria

  Rocks, Magic, Special

  "The Hilarious Hank Azaria". Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

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• You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do.

  Stuart Hamm

  Rocks, Important, Looks

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• My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.

  Rokia Traore

  Country, Unique, Thinking

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and you can sort of predict it, but a lot is left up to chance and interaction.

  Greg Saunier

  Song, Rocks, Chance

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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• I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

  Dan Bejar

  Rocks, Expression, Names

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

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• I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello.

  Tod Machover

  Teenager, Piano, Rocks

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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• I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me, it's like...you know, some dudes like hunting, fishing, going out and playing ball in the backyard with their buddies on a rainy day. I like being out with my buddies playing rock guitar. That's what I love to do.

  Robby Takac

  Rainy Day, Men, Hunting

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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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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• After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing of pop music and rock music, I don't think anyone really believes that music is anything more than another commodity.

  Stephen Fry

  Stars, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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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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• I'm definitely really into rock music, and I feel like that is where my heart is.

  Avril Lavigne

  Heart, Rocks, Feels

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

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• I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

  Chris McCaughan

  School, Rocks, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.

  Brandi Carlile

  Country, Issues, Our World

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• We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

  Gilberto Hernandez

  Artist, Rocks, People

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• Careful listening to current country and western and rock music with the help of an interpreter for coded phrases shows that young people are hearing a constant stream of messages about getting high, feeling good, going on trips, and using drugs of all kinds with all methods.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  Country, Rocks, People

  "The Teenage Drug Epidemic". El Paso Physician, Volume 6, 1983.

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• Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.

  Sherman Alexie

  Beautiful, Character, White

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, www.english.illinois.edu. 2001.

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

  Zubin Mehta

  Rocks, Talent, Music Is

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