Rock Star Quotes - Page 6

• I wanted to be a rock star.

  Craig Ferguson

  Stars, Rocks, Wanted

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• If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

  Rhys Ifans

  Stars, Rocks, Ifs

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• I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

  Vanilla Ice

  Stars, Rocks, People

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• There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa.

  Daryn Kagan

  Stars, Rocks, People

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• I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person.

  Jay Kay

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.

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• I think it would be really awesome to be a rock star.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  "17 Questions With Alexander Ludwig" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. March 22, 2012.

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• It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Stars, Rocks, Play

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• Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

  Karen O

  Stars, Rocks, Way

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

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• I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.

  Ian Rankin

  Stars, Rocks, Frustrated

  "Ian Rankin: 'I am, of course, a frustrated rock star'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.

  Catie Curtis

  Stars, Writing, Heart

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• Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

  Alex Borstein

  Stars, Rocks, Frustrated

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers than they do.

  Neil Strauss

  Stars, Artist, Rocks

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• She went out in the city with its lights like a radioactive phosphorescence, wandered through galleries where the high-priced art on the walls was the same as the graffiti scrawled outside by taggers who were arrested or killed for it, went to parties in hotel rooms where white-skinned, lingerie-clad rock stars had been staying the night their husbands shot themselves in the head, listened to music in nightclubs where stunning boyish actors had OD'd on the pavement.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Art, Stars, Wall

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• Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That's like...having rock-star problems.' 'Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Girl, Stars

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• If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth century was a century of greatness, but we face the very real prospect that the next century will see very few enduring great institutions.

  James C. Collins

  Stars, Real, Greatness

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• Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel, a boy in college once called her, begging her to let it grow. Right! That was all she needed: wild curls cascading down her back like a doomed Shakespearian virgin, or a rock star.

  Naomi Ragen

  Music, Running, Stars

  Naomi Ragen (2001). “The Ghost of Hannah Mendes”, p.70, Macmillan

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• Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final episode. I think I had a breakthrough.' And I would believe-for a few months-that it was true. That she was back to stay. Maybe it was like having a rock star mother who was always on the road. Were there Benatar children? Did they sit around and wonder if their mom's Hell is for Children tour was going to be her last tour?

  Augusten Burroughs

  Music, Mom, Mother

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.254, Macmillan

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• My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.

  Noel Gallagher

  Stars, Children, Son

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• You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stars, Rocks, Needs

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Stars, Rocks, Dying

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• Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.

  Dave Grohl

  Sports, Stars, Rocks

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• Can't do any work with a rock star; you have to go through their lawyers and their agents and their managers and you have to book them hotel rooms. When you work with your friends, you just call them up and they come over and you record and then you go out to see a movie.

  Moby

  Stars, Book, Rocks

  "Moby Discusses His Issues". Interview with Nell Alk, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• I don't think you can be a mysterious rock star the same way you could in 1965 because there's too much information. Everything you do is available all the time. So the only thing you can rely on is not being false.

  Chris Martin

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 31, 2011.

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• In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.

  Joe Scarborough

  Stars, Rocks, Years

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• I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

  Neil Strauss

  Stars, Rocks, Entitlement

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