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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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• 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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• 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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• Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Rocks, Anti Religion, Music Is

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• Elvis Presley is  the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.

  Peter Noone

  Father, Rocks, Civilization

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• I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

  Kevin Bacon

  Brother, Rocks, Albums

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• I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Thinking, Phones, Rocks

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• When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

  Jo Stafford

  Music, Rocks, Jazz

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• Soft rock music isn't rock, and it ain't music. It's just soft. Reminds me of something my third-grade teacher said to us. She said, "You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala."

  George Carlin

  Teacher, Stupid, Rocks

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• Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt song, or whoever. I realize there are so many melodies and chord progressions in pop and rock music that are so similar that you can kind of trace it back to other things. Most of the time it's just in your head.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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• Rock concerts are the churches of today.

  Craig Chaquico

  Rocks, Church, Satanic

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• A missionary should never permit himself to see a movie or (read) cheap literature, or hear music that tends to interfere with or which dampens the spirit of missionary work. There is ample evidence that rock music is offensive to the Spirit and affects adversely the spirituality of the missionaries and thus the success of the proselyting work.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Rocks, Missionary, Literature

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• Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food

  Steve Albini

  Rocks, Cooking, Musician

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• When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

  Trevor Horn

  Dad, Rocks, People

  "Horn of plenty". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2004.

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• So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

  Warren Jeffs

  Race, Rocks, Black

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• I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, lets be honest!

  Fefe Dobson

  Country, Rocks, Honest

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