Rocks Quotes - Page 16

• My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.

  Rokia Traore

  Country, Unique, Thinking

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• I was never ready to give up, but I did get words of confidence to move forward from a few musicians that had climbed up the totem pole of rock. They were encouraging words that struck a nerve with me and made me stronger.

  Lita Ford

  Giving Up, Moving, Encouraging Words

  "The Runaways Rocker Lita Ford on "Living Like a Runaway". Interview with Jeff Doles, www.hollywoodchicago.com. March 10, 2016.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's nice that psychedelic music is kind of a buzzword. When I started with Vincent Black Shadow, stoner-rock was getting big, but it was more of a riff-oriented thing. Now people are starting to get into the 60's-Pink Floyd-acid-pop viewpoint.

  Mike Romano

  Nice, People, Black

  Source: auralstates.com

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• People tell me I'm in a genre kind of movie, but it never crossed my mind that The Matrix was genre. To me it was about, for me anyway, my character, I had this rock outside my door which said "faith" or "believe" or something, and I remember felt like that was my key into her, into Trinity. It was like she was the heart of it.

  Carrie-Anne Moss

  Believe, Character, Heart

  Source: collider.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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• People can rock together, people can do great things together, and that's what you love when you're working with characters and it's all going well.

  Jamie Lidell

  Character, People, Together

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

  Dan Bejar

  Expression, Names, Way

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

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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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• 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 average age in the U.S. is now thirty-three, whereas Mexico gets younger and younger, retreats deeper and deeper into adolescence. Mexico is fifteen. Mexico is wearing a Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt and wandering around Tijuana looking for a job, for a date, for something to put on her face to take care of the acne.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Jobs, Average, Three

  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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• I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the song, I turn it up and start to sing.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Song, Emotional, Kind

  "The GQ&A: Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. September 12, 2011.

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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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• When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.

  Patti Smith

  Song, Teenager, Holiday

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

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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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• Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.

  Ian Astbury

  Artist, West, Band

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

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• So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same thing with rock, if you look at the Rolling Stones doing a cover of Otis Redding or you know if you look at literature James Joyce is pulling fragments of text from other people.

  DJ Spooky

  People, Rolling, Looks

  "Big Think Interview With DJ Spooky". bigthink.com. April 08, 2010.

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• I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Song, Badass, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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