Rock Star Quotes - Page 12

• I notice that so many of my peers, aging ingénues, rock stars, are moving along in life into their wrinkles with an adoring audience that's aging as well, and the plain truth is that I wasn't condemned by that because I've never had to be somebody to do something. I don't have a five year-plan. I just hope the phone will ring and it will bring an opportunity to dominate my life.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Moving, Opportunity, Aging

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't feel that I'm a role model. I'm just me. If people want to look up to me then that's their business. I'm not perfect and I don't consider myself to be a role model. But to be honest, I'd much rather my kids look up to me than look up to some rock star who gets off jail more times than is even funny.

  Noel Clarke

  Kids, People, Role Models

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I can understand why rock stars are rock stars and why they play in front of people because the buzz that you get is insane. It's probably the same as when you do something on stage and you work off the audience. The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Song, People, Dancing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You know, if Nicole Kidman was a rock star, she'd be alot more professional than me, I'm sorry.

  Courtney Love

  Stars, Sorry, Rocks

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• There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.

  Courtney Love

  Cheating, Song, Sex

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• A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thing is that it's the first time that David Lee Roth has had any publicity in ten years.

  Conan O'Brien

  Stars, Years, Rocks

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• Don't be a rock star. I've seen people around me have their lives destroyed by drugs. It just depends on what kind of person you are. Like, some people have a "go" button and a "stop" button, and some people just have the "go" button, meaning that they take drugs and just take more, and more, and more. It could be 6 in the morning and they'll say, "Okay, I have to get more now." I'm not that kind of person.

  Dean Wareham

  Morning, People, Drug

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We the real rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1 rock star on the planet.

  Kanye West

  Stars, Real, Rap

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• What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful?

  Ian Astbury

  Stars, Party, Rocks

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• The term "rock" has, unfortunately, become appropriated by four-year-old girls and accountants. An accountant does something amazingly well on the stock exchange and his buddies high-five him: He's a rock star! A four-year-old girl learned to ride a bicycle: She's a rock star!

  Ian Astbury

  Girl, Stars, Rocks

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• My boyfriend isn't a rock star. His values are rock solid. We met at a dinner and he made me laugh.

  Alek Wek

  Stars, Rocks, Laughing

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• For many years I wanted to be a rock star but of course that didn't work out. I did however write on napkins and pieces of paper sentences and occurrences. I decided maybe I should write a book because I had been writing so much. I'm actually writing a book based on The Room that will hopefully be published soon.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Stars, Book, Writing

  "The Room. Worst movie ever made?". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca.

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• You didn't have to be a huge rock star; you just had to do well enough to continue doing what you wanted to do. It wasn't about hitting the jackpot, it was about sustainability.

  Michael Azerrad

  Stars, Rocks, Hitting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.

  Blake Judd

  Running, Stars, Fun

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm finding that people reading the book [The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying, "You came from one background, I came from this background - you were a rock star, I was a CEO. I didn't have a heroin/coke problem, but I had a pill problem. But I also fell from grace, didn't know how to get recovery, and I am now in recovery." People tell me that their kids read it and told them they'll never do drugs - "This book really shows me where it goes."

  Nikki Sixx

  Stars, Book, Reading

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every single night, there seemed to be the same seven or eight guys - Harry Nilsson, myself, Mickey Dolenz, Bernie Taupin, Keith Moon when he was in town. It was actually sort of a social club - drinking club - for rock stars that drank - seriously drank.

  Alice Cooper

  Stars, Drinking, Moon

  "Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp And Friends Write A Musical Toast To Decadence". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

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• I guess we all had that work ethic. None of us were rock stars, so if you had time in a studio, it was a big, big deal: you're not going to sit around taking drugs and drinking and waste it, you'll do something.

  David Toop

  Stars, Drinking, Rocks

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Rock stardom is hard work and it takes a team to make it happen. Also, communication is important because too often inexperienced artists have delusions of what a label is supposed to do for them. The truth is, being in the record business is hard work and requires focus and calculated moves to achieve success.

  David Ellefson

  Team, Moving, Communication

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• I didn't want to be a photographer. I wanted to play music and be a rock star. I didn't have a mentor telling me to take pictures and encouraging me. But when the music thing didn't work out, I became a photographer's assistant. And then I caught the bug.

  Terry Richardson

  Work Out, Mentor, Photographer

  Source: wwd.com

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• I definitely notice the absence of character in most poetry, which is not so say that I'm an innovator in that regard. Character-based poems are not weird or new by any stretch but they feel strange and new because the atmosphere is one in which no one does that. People always talk about, and with good reason, poetry's unpopularity. When people say that they forget or they brush aside the fact that in the middle part of the last century poetry was immensely popular. Dylan Thomas was basically a rock star; so was Anne Sexton.

  Shane McCrae

  Character, People, Atmosphere

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Performing as a musician is a lot different than performing as an actor. As an actor, you can hide behind the character in the play, and there's a director and other actors. When you're a musician, you're right there. It's sort of like being a comedian. You're giving the audience in real time something authentic from yourself. As an actor, my bullshit meter was going off like crazy at my first attempts to find my own rock star.

  Billy Crudup

  Crazy, Real, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs.

  Shane MacGowan

  Stars, Mean, Play

  Source: shanemacgowan.com

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• I'm not really a fan of, like, rock stars, movie stars, people like that. I like politics.

  Alex Jones

  Stars, Rocks, People

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• Kevin Eastman is like a Buddha, like the coolest thing in the world, like a rock star.

  Greg Cipes

  Stars, Rocks, World

  Source: www.wired.com

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