Rocks Quotes - Page 26

• I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

  Kurt Cobain

  Stars, Rock And Roll, Want

  "Nirvana's Rise To Fame, In Their Own Words" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. September 18, 2011.

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• In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Stars, Paper, Way

  "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2011.

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• I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

  Diablo Cody

  Hipster, Writing, Rolling

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• Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.

  Diablo Cody

  Stars, Rolling, Looks

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• I love a smart, well-written show, and '30 Rock,' well, you can't get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There's nothing that she does that isn't funny. That show is an example of how brilliant she is. It's so smart. They've done some brilliant commentary about the 'Housewives' with 'Queen of Jordan,' their show-within-the-show.

  Andy Cohen

  Queens, Smart, Example

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• Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.

  Phil Collins

  Australia, Days Off, Three

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• It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.

  Phil Collins

  Couple, Months, Fans

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• All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.

  Alice Cooper

  Albums, Band, Coincidence

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• My granddad was an evangelist, and my grandma, she was as tough as nails. She watched 'American Bandstand' every day when she was in her 80s, 90s. She loved rock music. I never had anyone in my family that was anti-rock n' roll.

  Alice Cooper

  Grandma, Nails, Rock N Roll

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• Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

  Billy Corgan

  Play

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• I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Prepared, Flexibility

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• Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

  Billy Corgan

  Mainstream Culture, Mojo, Lost

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• Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

  Billy Corgan

  Rock And Roll, Wells, Artifice

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• I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

  Billy Corgan

  Mean, Levels, Vitality

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• I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music.

  Simon Cowell

  Snow, Would Be, Alternatives

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• You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.

  Sloane Crosley

  Cottages, Cheese, Strange

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• My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.

  Miley Cyrus

  Country, Real, Simple

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• Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

  Roger Daltrey

  Fifty, Good Times, Having A Good Time

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

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• Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

  Roger Daltrey

  Teenager, Support, Generations

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• I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

  Roger Daltrey

  Believe, Rock N Roll, Illusion

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

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• My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Cute, Boyfriend

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• I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Player, Guy, Southern

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• I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.

  Jonathan Davis

  Thinking, Competition, Scene

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• I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top.

  Jonathan Davis

  Beautiful, Girl, Stars

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• It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

  Jonathan Davis

  Band, Back In The Day, Albums

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