Rocks Quotes - Page 35

• I just wanna thank all those amazing Internet bloggers out there that hate me day-to-day. I love you! You rock!

  Tori Spelling

  I Love You, Hate, Internet

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• There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.

  Rick Springfield

  Stars, Depth, Rock Star

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• Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Race, Dying, Connections

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Respect, Looks, Littles

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Player, Cities, Kansas City

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• The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Hate, Guy, Needs

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• The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.

  Paul Stanley

  Band, Facts, Problem

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• It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Paul Stanley

  Inspiration, Artist, Rock And Roll

  "PAUL STANLEY Slams JANN WENNER For KISS 'Rock Hall' Snub". www.blabbermouth.net. May 20, 2013.

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• The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Paul Stanley

  Rock And Roll, Names, People

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• I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

  Howard Stern

  Atheist, Thinking, White

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• Hopefully my fan base doesn't lock me into 'Twilight,' you lose yourself. You should do things for you, and I have been really lucky to have things that really rock me and really move me falling into my lap.

  Kristen Stewart

  Moving, Fall, Twilight

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• Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

  Sting

  Growing Up, Rock N Roll, Dignity

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• I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

  Sting

  Hate, Rock Music, Middle

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• I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

  Tom Stoppard

  Branches, Rock N Roll, Pops

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• All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.

  Elaine Stritch

  Writing, Joy, Hot

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• Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

  James Surowiecki

  Musical, Punk, Accurate

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• I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Growing Up, Thinking, Years

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• I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it?

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Moving, Lakes

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• An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

  Ice T

  Party, Rap, Crowds

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• With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

  Serj Tankian

  Band, Records, Wanted

  "The Imperfect Harmony Of Serj Tankian". Interview With Chris Carle, www.ign.com. September 27, 2010.

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• 'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.

  Serj Tankian

  Fun, Journey, Different

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• I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.

  Serj Tankian

  Track, Four, Stuff

  "Serj Tankian: Alternative Rock’s Political Poet". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 9, 2007.

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• With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.

  Serj Tankian

  Jazz, Rock Music, Intention

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• Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

  James Taylor

  Stars, Thinking, Musician

  "James Taylor: 'I never did feel like I was the cool one'". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 21, 2008.

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• There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.

  Paul Theroux

  Stars, Cowboy, Thinking

  "Are U2 the last great rock'n'roll idealists?" by Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. August 08, 2009.

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