Rock Star Quotes

• There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

  Josh Groban

  Funny, Stars, Rocks

  VH1.com, November 23, 2003.

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• I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

  David Bowie

  Graduation, Travel, Promise

  "Mourning David Bowie, Dead at 69" by Nicole Silverberg, www.gq.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Stars, Rocks, Play

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• I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

  Freddie Mercury

  Stars, Rocks, Singers

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• As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

  Bono

  Inspirational, Stars, Fun

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• Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me.

  James Daly

  Stars, Rocks, Energizing

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• As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

  David Bowie

  Two, Long, Music And Life

  "David Bowie, 21st-Century Entrepreneur". Interview with Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. June 9, 2002.

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• If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one

  Marilyn Manson

  Stars, Rocks, Treated

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• I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.

  Elton John

  Stars, Rocks, Individuality

  "A star is reborn". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2004.

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• You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Stars, Fun, Dirty

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• I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

  David Bowie

  Glam Rock, Life And Death, Music And Life

  Rolling Stone #206, February 12, 1976.

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• If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

  Alice Cooper

  Stars, Rocks, Order

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

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• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

  Elvis Presley

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)

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• I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

  David Bowie

  Music, Stars, Water

  "'I'm an Instant Star': The Definitive List of David Bowie's Best Quotes". nationalpost.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.

  Billy Joel

  Stars, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stars, Rocks, Burning

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.84, Penguin

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• My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Jobs, Stars, Rocks

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• You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

  David Bowie

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

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• If anybody wants to be a rock star they've gotta try hard enough. They're not gonna get it handed to them

  Marilyn Manson

  Stars, Rocks, Trying

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• I was really wanting to be a rock star. I was saying, "I am going to have a fancy car, I got to have fancy clothes, and I have got to play the whole role." Obviously, I meant business.

  Sammy Hagar

  Stars, Rocks, Fancy Cars

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.

  Donatella Versace

  Stars, Men, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Running, Stars, Rocks

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• I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

  Kanye West

  Stars, Rocks, Breathing

  "Kanye West, the Transformer, on his New Album Yeezus and Kim Kardashian" by Christopher Bagley, www.wmagazine.com. June 19, 2013.

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• What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.

  Courtney Love

  Stars, Rocks, Rockstars

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• Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation.

  Brian May

  Song, Stars, Queens

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