Glam Rock Quotes

• I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

  David Bowie

  Life And Death, Music And Life, Needs

  Rolling Stone #206, February 12, 1976.

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• My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

  Brandi Carlile

  Rocks, Two, Mercury

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• I think that's what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these different ways, or offered up all these options.

  Todd Haynes

  Thinking, Rocks, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• David Bowie is kind of the pioneer of glam rock. Not just for music, but just his overall, how he incorporates fashion and other arts into music. And he does a really amazing job about being fearless and that kind of stuff.

  BØRNS

  Fashion, Art, Jobs

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

  Nick Rhodes

  Rocks, Style, Important

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• Glitter is cool because that's like glam rock, but rhinestones need to die out.

  Kemp Muhl

  Rocks, Needs, Glitter

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Did you know that the percentage of young people in the crucial 'youthquake' age bracket of 15 to 24 was higher in 1973 than in 1967 ? Therefore it was glam rock that ended the war in Vietnam.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  War, Rocks, People

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• The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music. So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time. You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.

  Boy George

  Sex, Teenager, Rocks

  "Karma is good to chameleon Boy George". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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• There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed up in mother's castoffs and glamour is a certain sophistication, a certain other-worldliness, a certain unattainableness, which I think we certainly calculate. We believe that a band should be slightly larger than life - you should be transported to an alternate reality. I'm giving you some really good answers here, I'm very proud of myself.

  Brian Molko

  Football, Mother, Believe

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• Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.

  Gary Kemp

  Art, Rocks, People

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

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• To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.

  Shane West

  Rap, Gangsta, Boys

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• In my research, all roads led back to Oscar. It's definitely in a way trying to understand the truly English element to glam-rock. It really does not come from American culture.

  Todd Haynes

  Rocks, Trying, Doe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band. "Or a song," the Duke said, and then she started singing all glam rock, a glove up to her face holding an imaginary mic as she rocked out an a cappella power ballad. "Oh, I deep fried for you / But now I weep 'n' cry for you / Oh, babe, this meal was made for two / And these hash browns mean nothing, oh these hash browns mean nothing, yeah these HASH BROWNS MEAN NOTHIN' without you.

  John Green

  Song, Mean, Two

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.105, Penguin

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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

  Rocks, Ideas, World

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

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