Rocks Quotes - Page 24

• Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.

  Sebastian Bach

  Guy, Video, Band

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• I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

  Kevin Bacon

  Brother, Albums, Three

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• I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.

  David Bailey

  Light, Tree, Waiting

  "Di wasn't a great beauty". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

  Alec Baldwin

  Successful, Has Beens, Begets

  "Why Me?". Interview with Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. September 8, 2008.

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• I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.

  Christian Bale

  Stars, Character, People

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• House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Rap, House, Hip Hop

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• Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

  Lester Bangs

  Noise, Acoustics, Tone

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

  Travis Barker

  Band, Acoustics, Kind

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• Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.

  John Belushi

  Army, Chicago, Rock N Roll

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!

  Lawrence Bender

  Stars, Red, Als

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• The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

  Jello Biafra

  Roots, Ethics, Punk

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• Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

  Bjork

  Turning 50, Interesting, Development

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• When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

  Bjork

  Teenager, Iceland, People

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• There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.

  Jack Black

  Meals, Hungry, Delicious

  FaceBook post by Jack Black from Jul 30, 2013

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• When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.

  Jack Black

  Running, Kids, Thinking

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• I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Play Hard, Renaissance, Sophisticated

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• Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

  Ruben Blades

  Generations, Youth, Speak

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• Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

  Tony Blair

  Graduates, Truth Is, Rock Music

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

  Allan Bloom

  Music, Children, Silver Platter

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

  Marc Bolan

  Musician, Sound, Deaf

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• As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

  Bono

  Ghetto, Hip Hop, Hips

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• I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

  Bono

  Stars, Catholic, Guilt

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• In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

  Bono

  Stars, Views, Rock Star

  2001 Harvard University Class Day Address, delivered 6 June 2001

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• Rock stars are good at making noise.

  Bono

  Stars, Noise, Rock Star

  "The lobbyist rock star", www.cnn.com. April 19, 2004.

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• The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

  Bono

  Ghetto, Self, Rock N Roll

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