Rocks Quotes - Page 11

• I was always concerned with making cool-sounding rock records.

  A.C. Newman

  Records, Concerned

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Play, Important, West

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail.

  Paul Banks

  Hip Hop, Tails, Firsts

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that.

  Bradford Cox

  Running, Medicine, Healthy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In indie rock, there's the phenomenon of: "Oh, this guy seems totally normal, but he's actually crazy." There's more of that out there than you'd think.

  Tom Scharpling

  Crazy, Thinking, Indie Rock

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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, Hitting, Sustainability

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

  Craig Finn

  Rock N Roll, Band, Ridiculous

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.

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• Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

  Justin Vernon

  Indie Rock, Independence, Mindfulness

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind of quiet-storm format uses a lot of these sounds.

  Dan Bejar

  Thinking, Storm, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it.

  Colin Stetson

  Band, Phases, Grunge

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

  Kieran Hebden

  Father, Soul, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Hip Hop, Stuff

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.

  David Pajo

  Beautiful, Trying, Want

  "Dead Child". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• Licensing is how indie rock people make a living these days, so whatever about that. But I want good films and good placement for the songs because I want to be exclusive. I don't want to just sign it away because I don't want songs to lose meaning, but I'm also...I don't care [that] Wilco sold songs to Volkswagen. That's great. They probably drive Volkswagens.

  Justin Vernon

  Song, Indie Rock, People

  Source: pitchfork.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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• I hit rock bottom when I was doing "The Brady Brides." I was supposed to be at the studio, screen testing to pick the guy that would play my husband. At this time, I had been up for three days doing coke and was playing solitaire in my closet.

  Maureen McCormick

  Husband, Play, Guy

  "Maureen McCormick: 'I hit rock bottom'". TODAY interview, www.today.com. October 14, 2008.

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• I'm in a funny position: I've been in one band in my life and that was with my brother. As incredible as that has been, I feel like I'm missing out a little bit on being in a real rock band - or how I imagine being in a real rock band to be. It's like being in a street gang: you all wear the same leather jacket or whatever.

  Eleanor Friedberger

  Brother, Real, Leather Jackets

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

  Brian Chippendale

  People, Radio, Tire

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

  Matt Berninger

  Thinking, Rock And Roll, Perspective

  "The National". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. February 5, 2006.

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• Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a band called the Flying Luttenbachers. Go see the Flying Luttenbachers when they're in your town. He's one of the greatest rock composers who ever lived, and he's struggling and living like a poverty-stricken hermit.

  Glenn Branca

  Struggle, Blow, Oakland

  Interview with Simon Dasher, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2006.

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• I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all.

  Matt Tong

  Long, Band, Findings

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist.

  Matt Tong

  Real, Lineage, Problem

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.

  Matt Tong

  Real, Enemy, Too Much

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.

  Dan Bejar

  Mean, Kids, Garden

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

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• That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and you can sort of predict it, but a lot is left up to chance and interaction.

  Greg Saunier

  Song, Chance, Rock Music

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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