Rock Star Quotes - Page 14

• I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that but in the end I'm just a person. I really don't live like a rock star, economically or socially. I still live a pretty simple life beside the traveling aspect of it.

  Patti Smith

  Mom, Stars, Artist

  Source: the-talks.com

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• I was never a singer, I can't play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.

  Patti Smith

  Stars, Frustration, Rocks

  "American icon". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2003.

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• There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur.

  Michael Arrington

  Basketball, Country, Stars

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• I've met a lot of rock stars when they come to The Simpsons, and almost every one of them I get really freaked out.

  Hank Azaria

  Stars, Rocks, Mets

  Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

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• I'm the anti-rock star. I'm happy just to have a bottle of water.

  Ben Kweller

  Stars, Rocks, Water

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• Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

  Heather O'Neill

  Stars, Children, Fall

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• Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star. There's no way you can compare him. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it. There's nobody who can take his place.

  Freddie Mercury

  Stars, Rocks, Idols

  "Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London". Circus Magazine, April 1975.

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• I'm a rock 'n' roll baby. I was one of the last actually born into rock, in the middle of it. My mother was a promoter, so I grew up with rock stars. When I was little, people like Jimi Hendrix were walking around in the living room.

  Ari Up

  Mother, Baby, Stars

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.

  Les Claypool

  Stars, Rocks, Fishing

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

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• I'm not in Captain America because it takes place in the '40s. Both he and Bruce Banner are relationships that evolve during this - two more rock stars that I got to get on stage, ready to play ball.

  Clark Gregg

  Stars, Rocks, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not a rock star, I'm a rock bright-light.

  Jay Gordon

  Stars, Light, Rocks

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• I'd say the vast majority of my interview experiences have been pleasant, better than pleasant. But sometimes there will be people who will size you up. There can be that "rock star" thing where they think it's cool to pull back.

  Anthony DeCurtis

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's always an interesting question of what was it like as Norman Mailer's son because I could easily turn it back and say what's it like not to. I didn't always realize my dad was Norman Mailer. I always knew he was Dad, and then I forget the exact age when it dawned on me that, you know, he is actually someone who affects the public consciousness of the time. It was amazing. I mean he was a rock star and brilliant and kind and funny and generous and scary when he needed to be and, you know, hard as a father.

  John Buffalo Mailer

  Dad, Father, Mean

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Rocks, Use

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks on Post-‘Cosmos’". Front Row Features Interview, frontrowfeatures.com. June 8, 2014.

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• I don't think we ever sat down in the early days and said "hey lets be a band that wears make up". I think it was just natural for us. We grew up loving stuff like Alice Cooper, Kiss, The Misfits, and the more theatrical stuff. I always loved rock stars. I loved David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and these people that were larger than life and iconic. I think that is what we always wanted to do.

  Andy Biersack

  Stars, Kissing, Thinking

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• A rock star never gets old!

  Anthony Kiedis

  Stars, Rocks

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• I'm a rock star among geeks, wonks, and nerds.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Stars, Rocks, Nerd

  "‘Dr. Doom’ economist Nouriel Roubini forced to remove giant hot tub" by Emily Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2013.

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• When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock and roll was not just entertainment, it was the center of people's lives. When I was young, it was exciting and interesting.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Stars, Kids, Rocks

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• In fact, I was welcomed. There were movie stars and rock stars. I became a pot star. I glorified in that. And of course as time wore on the business began to expand and grow. It went from more or less a college fun thing to a serious business. As the money grew, the power grew.

  George Jung

  Stars, Fun, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star ... Today people can idolize a star in one area and forget about him in another. A big rock star might sell millions and millions of records, but then if he makes a bad movie ... forget it.

  Andy Warhol

  Stars, Rocks, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think younger artists are often "students" of the rock press. They have their favorite rock star interviews and know how they're supposed to act. But I find that time helps a lot. If you have enough time you can sort of break that down just by being a normal person. And then they realize the interview isn't just a performance, and they can actually speak to you. I often try to get people into a space where they're not over-thinking what they're talking about and instead they're speaking emotionally, from within their experience.

  Anthony DeCurtis

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.

  Meat Loaf

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

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

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• As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.

  Libba Bray

  Stars, Kids, Dark

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.257, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” “Elton John?” “Close. Ernest Hemingway. In his own way, sort of the rock star of his time.

  Kami Garcia

  Stars, Rocks, Way

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• The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Stars, Rocks

  "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1973.

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