Rocks Quotes - Page 31

• Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Climbing, Stories

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

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• She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.

  Paul McCartney

  Queens, Reign, Rock N Roll

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• I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.

  Ewan McGregor

  Glam Rock, Ideas, World

  "New Again: Ewan McGregor". Interview with Todd Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 25, 2012.

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• I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

  Ian Mcewan

  Successful, Play, Guitar

  "Ian McEwan", www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Mean, Rock And Roll, Trying

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• This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Writing, Opera

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• I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

  Christopher Meloni

  Funny, War, Thinking

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• I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star.

  Marisa Miller

  Stars, Hero, Guitar

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• I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

  Marisa Miller

  Rock And Roll, Band, Zeppelins

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• I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock, and Jimi Hendrix is one of my favorite artists. My favorite song is 'Red House,' because it's heavy on the blues.

  Marisa Miller

  Song, Artist, House

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• Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

  Joni Mitchell

  Play, Hollies, Way

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• You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

  Joni Mitchell

  Mean, Sight, Swings

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• If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.

  Moby

  People, Band, Records

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• As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.

  Moby

  New York, Blue, House

  "Q&A: Moby interview". www.cnn.com. November 10, 2006.

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• I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's my favorite one. It's also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst.

  Moby

  Dark, Animal, Rights

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• When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

  Moby

  Guitar, Years, Play

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• I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Band, Napster

  "Michael Moore Takes on His Pirates!" by Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. June 19, 2007.

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• The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

  Robert Morgan

  Mtv, Rock And Roll, People

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• I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

  Van Morrison

  Stars, Competition, Trying

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• When I'm panicked about my love handles, I go to the YMCA and get obsessed with Kid Rock videos as I'm on the running machine.

  Emily Mortimer

  Running, Kids, Ymca

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• Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

  Ednita Nazario

  Country, Latin, Style

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• Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.

  Stevie Nicks

  Good Day, Fighting, Menopause

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• I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.

  Ted Nugent

  Views, Rock And Roll, Support

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• I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

  Ted Nugent

  Attitude, Fire, Guitar

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• Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Guitar, Years

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