Rocks Quotes - Page 14

• Glitter is cool because that's like glam rock, but rhinestones need to die out.

  Kemp Muhl

  Glam Rock, Needs, Glitter

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.

  Davy Rothbart

  Writing, School, Night

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I started playing the acoustic guitar for more singer-songwriter type stuff. I bet if I would have gotten more approval for my "rock playing", I might be a world class shredder.

  Jill Sobule

  Guitar, Class, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• How can you go on stage and shout 'Yeah! Rock'n'roll forever!' and then go to bed at 10 o'clock with a nightcap on, a candle in your hand and a Bible under your arm?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Hands, Forever, Bed

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be.

  Bucky Pope

  Song, Band, Moments

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What most interests me is human connection, whether it's on the street, in
  community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money.

  Ben Sollee

  Giving Up, People, Community

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• I have to say that Dave's Grohl amazing too. You see all these interviews with him and he seems like the coolest and nicest guy on camera, but he really is when he's off too! I was fortunate enough to know him before he was a big rock star when I put out his very first band's album.

  Reed Mullin

  Stars, Guy, Cameras

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it was a music college and we had to take instrument classes there - so I think guitar playing and guitar sounds have always been an influence.

  Christian Fennesz

  School, College, Thinking

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• It's true that laptop performances can be boring for the audience. The problem is, the organizers of events are still putting us on the classic "rock stage," instead of trying to find new ways to present the music.

  Christian Fennesz

  Trying, Events, Laptops

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• I'm not a precious text protector, or anything like that, you know, because it's a much more vital form than that. You have to rock.

  William Monahan

  Form, Knows, Protector

  Source: collider.com

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• The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.

  Robbie Robertson

  Stupid, Ideas, People

  "Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in The Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

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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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• It's like a little folk song. I think it might've been Harry Belafonte or someone like that who did it. And "Merry Christmas, Everybody" by Slade, which is a rock group - a rock-pop group who are very big over there.

  Nick Lowe

  Song, Merry Christmas, Thinking

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.

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• It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.

  Christine Ebersole

  Important, Generations, Way

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no rocks, and there's gold in the hills.' The West becomes the surface onto which people project their fantasies, where once the future had been the place they projected their fantasies. So it's not just the war that ends the utopian communities, but what follows.

  Christine Jennings

  War, California, Feet

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I mean, people who watch Jon Stewart's show every night don't think he went far enough, because he couldn't do what he does on his show every night, because it's a different job. The same thing with Chris Rock. He can't come out and do a tossed-salad routine, the way he does on his HBO shows, because this is the Academy Awards.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Jobs, Mean, Night

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Woody Weatherman showed me two beats, the "do do dat, do do dat" rock beat and the "ooh at ooh at ooh at" punk beat and other than that I was pretty limited. I had just gotten a drum kit for Christmas, which I was stoked about so I was ready to go. Back then, the prerequisite for playing punk rock drums wasn't very high, it was really pretty generic as I'm sure you can imagine.

  Reed Mullin

  Two, Imagine, Punk

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter of fact, before Mike, Woody and I really got going on touring on the old Animosity stuff, Karl & I did about a dozen shows performing the Blind album from start to finish. He's still a good friend of mine and is now in a band called Lead Foot that's more Rock and Roll but they're fantastic, kind of Thin Lizzy or MC5 sounding.

  Reed Mullin

  Good Friend, Rock And Roll, Feet

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times.

  Glenn Branca

  Real, People, Interesting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that's what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these different ways, or offered up all these options.

  Todd Haynes

  Thinking, Glam Rock, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I want people who are going to rock out for the duration.

  Torae

  People, Want, Duration

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• With my solo music, I really try to step out of the box and do stuff I don't get to do with the boys. I wanted it to be fun, rock-infused and try some new things while going back to my roots. "All American" the song is one of my favorites from the album, which is why I chose to title the album after it. To me, it's the perfect song to represent the feel of the album.

  Nick Carter

  Song, Fun, Boys

  "Nick Carter Reflects on the '90s Backstreet Boys, Says New Album Is in the Works (Q&A)". Interview with Natalie Stone, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 26, 2016.

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• I wanted to learn a little bit about acting, not because I thought I'd find a star vehicle and set the world on fire, but I thought the discipline of it would be good for me. I met a good coach, and I joined her class - with a lot of hungry young actors who really didn't acre if I was a rock 'n' roll singer or not. I started to learn to get a focus, without having to jump up and down every few seconds.

  Iggy Pop

  Stars, Class, Fire

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I could definitely rock out to Kraftwerk's "Tour De France," Tubeway Army, or Gary Numan. All of that stuff has an infectious beat, but with "Oh Yeah," I can't even identify what's going on. It sounds like typewriter keys, a couple of synth notes and then this really deep "Oh yeah," which I always picture as Andre The Giant on vocals.

  Margaret Cho

  Couple, Army, Keys

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello’s “Oh Yeah” reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• I am far from an "old" person in human terms, however I've spent over half my life immersed in the punk rock and hardcore community. I am not wholly defined by that as a person, but it is something that has been part of me for a long time.

  Jacob Bannon

  Long, Community, Half

  Source: pitchfork.com

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