Rocks Quotes - Page 21

• Rock stars are idiots. You know that! Remember this moron never went to music school, never learned music theory and can't read or write music. So why not be suspicious of everything this idiot says?

  Gene Simmons

  Stars, School, Writing

  Source: www.noise11.com

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• Recognize a rock 'n' roller for what he is, which is a damned lucky guy not to have to work for a living.

  Gene Simmons

  Guy, Lucky, Lucky Guy

  Source: www.noise11.com

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• People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky. It's a combination of right time, right place and having certain genes or a gimmick or whatever, but it's really not anything more than sugar. It tastes good and goes away fast.

  Gene Simmons

  Stars, Player, People

  Source: www.noise11.com

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• Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Little Richard and Etta James all play the same venues. It was a mix of funk, soul, blues and rock 'n' roll.

  Phil Collen

  Brother, Artist, Play

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

  Simon Helberg

  Jazz, Classical Music, Wanted

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• It ended suddenly for Brenda, more slowly for me. My runs began getting shorter and less pleasurable. I'd feel bad after only one day, or only a few hours, instead of four or five days. And I began to want to stop. One of the proudest moments of my life was at a rock-'n'-roll theater in New Jersey. A guy actually put some coke under my nose and I was able to say, "No, thanks," and turn my head away.

  George Carlin

  Running, Guy, One Day

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation, and there's this invariable, fascinating and rather sad situation of concentric circles of availability. There are Green Rooms within Green Rooms literally within Green Rooms. There are seven or eight degrees of exclusivity, and within each circle of exclusivity, everyone is so happy to be there, and they don't know that the next level exists.

  William Gibson

  Artist, Eight, Circles

  Source: craphound.com

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• [I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation], and eventually you find yourself in the room with the Radiant Being around whom all this is revolving. It's very bizarre, and it's quasi-religious, or possibly genuinely religious. Spooky. It's a spooky and interesting thing.

  William Gibson

  Religious, Artist, Interesting

  Source: craphound.com

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• [Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco. Most of my stories are tales of anguish, stress and grief.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Falling In Love, Sex, Stress

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It was not about trying to get, you know, stadium gigs or even commercial radio play or even record deals for that matter. It was about saying something 'cause you meant it, and expressing something that you felt. And that was primary for that - whatever the scene, whatever punk rock means, it was very, very important to me, very formative.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Real, Mean, Expression

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street style feeds American iconics back into America in somewhat the way English rock once fed American blues back into America.

  William Gibson

  Writing, America, Japan

  Source: www.heddels.com

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• A few Disney TV composers had me pinch-hit writing some scoring cues to picture. Disney tapped me to be the composer for the underscore and song producer for this new show called "Phineas and Ferb."There is nothing like a successful animated show to get your chops up. You have to do every style - action, adventure, romantic, suspense, spy, poignant, rock, funk, big band - delivered on a deadline.

  Danny Jacob

  Song, Adventure, Writing

  Source: www.axs.com

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• T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Daddy, Bones, Rock Music

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I am a firm believer in playing the type of music that compliments the song the best. If it's a folk song make it sound like one. If it's a rock song make it sound like one, if it's a rap song take it off the record.

  William Clark Green

  Song, Rap, Sound

  Source: countrymusicrocks.net

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• The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.

  Killer Mike

  Mean, Way, Anarchist

  Source: www.complex.com

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• That's what I grew up loving. Whether it's 30 Rock or The Office or Parks And Rec... I don't know if those still work on network today or not, but The Grinder did not. But the great news is that it lives on on Netflix.

  Rob Lowe

  Office, News, Parks And Rec

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The [Donald] Trump administration is making it very clear that they intend to destroy our only drinking water resource on the Standing Rock Nation and the tens - the 10 million people who live south of the proposed pipeline. Drilling can begin any minute.

  Chase Iron Eyes

  Drinking, People, Water

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are probably 400 to 500 people, water protectors, north of the 1889 boundary, that was the result of an illegal annexation of treaty territory by the United States against not just the Standing Rock Nation, but the entire Lakota Nation and members of the Great Sioux Nation, the Oceti Sakowin. And so, other tribal governments are weighing in and supporting a fight on the ground, as they have a right to do.

  Chase Iron Eyes

  Fighting, Government, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I know that there is a difference of opinion, but we stand united with the Standing Rock Nation in wanting the most highly militarized blockade in North Dakota history to be lifted, because it's functioning as a successful economic sanction.

  Chase Iron Eyes

  Successful, Economic Sanctions, Differences

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We are communal beings who love to get together in groups and share emotions - like sporting events, rock concerts and political rallies. We crave tribal membership.

  Nick Morgan

  Political, Together, Groups

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that music to this day. Memphis never gets the credit. It's much more musically rich than Nashville ever will be. Nashville manufactured that hokey-hillbilly image way back.

  Steve Young

  Nashville, Roots, Credit

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• My favorite record I've ever done is Rock Salt and Nails. It was recorded in '68-'69 and released in '69. There's something about that record I really like.

  Steve Young

  Done, Records, Salt

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I like the fact that Chris Rock is one of the best stand ups ever and still is a really good actor. And a great professional and a good friend and a wonderful human being.

  Dennis Dugan

  Good Friend, Facts, Actors

  Source: thesource.com

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• Music is trying to tell a story, and I love the rock vibe. Hearing that finished product is almost the same high as having a killer wrestling match, you're just doing it with a guitar instead of a partner in the ring.

  Jeff Hardy

  Wrestling, Guitar, Trying

  Source: www.si.com

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• My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.

  Tracy Morgan

  Stars, Dad, Father

  Source: lasentinel.net

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