Rocks Quotes - Page 20

• The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.

  Jimmy Page

  School, Way, Taught

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• You get as much out of rock & roll artistically as you put into it. There's nobody who can teach you. You're on your own and that's what I find so fascinating about it.

  Jimmy Page

  Teach, Fascinating

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I love all the '90s kind of grunge, and I love classic rock: That's where the spectrum lies.

  Taylor Momsen

  Lying, Classic, Kind

  Source: people.com

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• I'm business savvy and my will is only to win. I can't hit rock bottom any lower. It's only up from here. The weight is off the shoulders with that.

  Tony Sunshine

  Winning, Weight, Shoulders

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

  Bruce Springsteen

  Rock Music, Inventor, Exception

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that's over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level of the sea as it slides into the ocean, putting at risk everyone and everything that lives on the coasts, and that includes an enormous percentage of the world's people.

  Bill McKibben

  Ocean, Ice, Sea

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock 'n' roll? No. I wanted a guitar, but my mother didn't really want me to have one. At some point I played a violin, but I didn't last long at that.

  Mark Alan Stamaty

  Mother, Father, Guitar

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Looking at the Obamas, it's like my father and my mother 43 years later. It was the same old rock star thing, and I think Barack is continuing what my father did with true consciousness, true ability, and a global view.

  Malaak Shabazz

  Mother, Stars, Father

  Source: maxblumenthal.com

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• It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

  Malcolm X

  School, Army, White

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.

  Patti Smith

  Rock And Roll, Ideas, Drug

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When we were in Beijing, they were all "it's an honor, you're playing at the oldest rock club in Beijing". And I was all "oh crazy how old is it?" And then were all: "5 years old."Asia is just very different.

  Mac DeMarco

  Crazy, Years, Honor

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• You kind of have to be like " What have you been working the last five years for? Why are you complaining?" It's essentially me talking myself out of being a crybaby indie rock butthead.

  Mac DeMarco

  Talking, Years, Indie Rock

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to do with the kind of ballistic calculations you need to hit small game with a rock.

  Howard Rheingold

  Games, Brain, Needs

  Source: medium.com

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• When people come to my shows they know there is a distinct beginning and end. It's difficult for me to play for much more than an hour, so people kind of come out and treat it like a rock show. They're fiending and ready to dance.

  Girl Talk

  Play, People, Beginnings And Ends

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Standing Rock is a moment in history. We really have to grab it and go with it.

  Neil Young

  Moments, Standing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• People will always have the desire to make rock and roll records, and they'll always have the desire to sell rock and roll records. Most of the people making these records do it because it is a business, and if someone says, "You can't do this", they won't complain. They'll just keep making records, but they'll get blander and blander. There'll still be rock and roll, but compared to what it really could be or ought to be, I don't think it'll be all that terrific.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Rock And Roll, People

  Source: afka.net

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• [Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-'60s with the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.

  Bill Walton

  Song, Strong, Grateful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music. So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time. You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.

  Boy George

  Sex, Teenager, Years

  "Karma is good to chameleon Boy George". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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• I know how to make an audience laugh, 'cause I grew up on Third Rock from the Sun, week after week in front of audiences, making them laugh.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Laughing, Sun, Causes

  Source: www.grouchoreviews.com

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• When [Bill Clinton] was running for president. I'll never forget this one. He was running in New Hampshire. He was not doing well. And he suddenly, over a weekend, rushed back to Little Rock to execute a guy who had killed a cop, but in the process, the policeman had shot him in the head and he was out of it. He didn't know today from tomorrow, good, evil, whatever. His lawyer begged - his lawyer was an old friend of Clinton.

  Nat Hentoff

  Running, Weekend, Evil

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don't always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock.

  Chamillionaire

  Rap, Trying, Littles

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll is a millstone around my neck.

  Horace Panter

  Rock And Roll, Necks

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• I'm not a rock and roller, a hitmaker. I'm highly dependent on what's coming out of these vocal cords.

  Joan Baez

  Coming Out, Vocal Cords, Dependent

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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• You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or hip-hop has ever done it any bigger than him. You know what I mean? He's the man.

  Bruno Mars

  Mean, Artist, Men

  Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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• Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.

  Paul Morley

  Novelty, Rock Music, Used

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