Rocks Quotes - Page 12

• You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.

  David Pajo

  Metal Fans, America, Towns

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

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• More and more into natural feelings rather than convoluted feelings or tastemaking or what have you. You always need critique, rock critics, but you can't take away people's taste. People are starting to, very slowly, do their own thing.

  Justin Vernon

  People, Feelings, Needs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People have a hard time going to a club and seeing this business tool on stage that's wholly indicative of everything that rock is not. Rock is not about sitting in an office setting up documents, yet they see someone on stage doing that.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Hard Times, People, Office

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

  Colin Meloy

  Stuff, Records, Punk

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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• My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

  Patti Smith

  Father, Real, Rock And Roll

  "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.

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• I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could get on a car stereo. Once you get a car at that age, you're spending all the time you can away from home, sometimes just driving around aimlessly. Listening, or not even listening, but subconsciously soaking up this classic rock barrage.

  Craig Finn

  School, Home, College

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

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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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• When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate.

  Matt Tong

  Growing Up, Singers, Way

  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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• It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music.

  Prefuse 73

  Indie Rock, Connecting

  "Prefuse 73". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2005.

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• The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that writers should provide an example of how to live. Virginia Woolf ended her life by putting a rock in her sweater one day and walking into a lake. She is not a model of how I want to live my life. On the other hand, the bravery of her syntax, of her sentences, written during her deepest depression, is a kind of example for me. But I do not want to become Virginia Woolf. That is not why I read her.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Virginia, Hands, Sweaters

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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, Laughing, My Boyfriend

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.

  Joe Perry

  Country, Player, Guitar

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

  Mark Kozelek

  Musician, Levels, Touring

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello.

  Tod Machover

  Teenager, Piano, Firsts

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.

  Katie Aselton

  Self, Black

  Source: www.gq.com

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• A lot of young artists and musicians that we work with, you think they're gonna want to come in and buy the rock star-looking leather jacket - whatever it is that you think they're gonna want. They all want a suit. They want a tuxedo jacket, they want a suit. They don't want to look like their dad in it, but they want a suit.

  Paul Weller

  Stars, Dad, Thinking

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.

  Ian Astbury

  Spiritual, Artist, African American

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

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• I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.

  Ian Astbury

  Artist, Thinking, Rock And Roll

  "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, Years

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

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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, Self

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

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• Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.

  Ice T

  Rap, Guitar, Buttons

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party.

  Ice T

  Party, Rapper, Rhyme

  Source: www.wbur.org

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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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