Rocks Quotes - Page 32

• Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

  Conan O'Brien

  Years, Rock And Roll, Noses

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• I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

  Conor Oberst

  Indie Rock, Car, Nebraska

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• Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.

  Yoko Ono

  Rock And Roll, Important, Energy

  "Meltdown festival: Yoko Ono's choices" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 11. 2013.

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• In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

  Yoko Ono

  Artist, People, Avant Garde

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• Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Perfect, Rock Music, Music Is

  "Ozzy Osbourne: 'I had nothing to lose'" by Rob Fitzpatrick, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2011.

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• Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

  Camille Paglia

  Roots, Feminist, Leader

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• There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Stars, Actors, Want

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• Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

  Joe Perry

  Rock And Roll, Rock N Roll, Kind

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• How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

  Petrarch

  Ignorance, Character, Sea

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• It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

  Liz Phair

  Blue, Rock And Roll, Done

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• I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

  Liz Phair

  Summer, Clothes, Long

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• I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.

  Pink

  Children, Band, Singers

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• Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.

  Robert Plant

  Leaving, Musician, World

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• It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

  Robert Plant

  Rock And Roll, Beauty And Love, Singers

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• People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you.

  Robert Plant

  Air, People, Body

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• Some exfoliates have rocks in them and it makes your skin really smooth, and cat litter is a good substitute. I haven't broke out at all yet!

  Nicole Polizzi

  Cat, Skins, Broke

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• I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

  Manuel Puig

  Rock And Roll, Literature, Idiot

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• Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Mean, Artist, Roots

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• Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Song, Guitar, People

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• My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

  Rachael Ray

  Dream, Jobs, Fighter

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• You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

  Lance Reddick

  Stars, Artist, Black

  "'Wire' and 'Fringe' star makes music, too". Interview with John Carucci, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 10, 2011.

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• I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

  Lou Reed

  Writing, Play, Trying

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• I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

  John C. Reilly

  Song, Dad, Kids

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• A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.

  Little Richard

  Believe, People, Architect

  FaceBook post by Little Richard from Dec 18, 2015

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• But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

  Little Richard

  Occupation, Singers, Rock N Roll

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