Hard Rock Quotes - Page 2

• Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

  Eddie Trunk

  Kissing, Rocks, Iron

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• I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.

  Corey Taylor

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.

  Horace

  Powerful, Blow, Rocks

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• I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and rather than just doing one thing when I make an album, the challenge to myself is to write all these diverse tracks, but to make them work. It's like a jigsaw because if you've got a lyrical track going into a hard rock track... it's got to work. You've got to write things that will work together.

  Jack Bruce

  Writing, Rocks, Track

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• The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can hook a lyric up and a feeling up to something and make the lyric jump into this machine that crushes. That has always been really attractive to me, that kind of power.

  Henry Rollins

  Crush, Rocks, Feelings

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• The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Depth, Rolling

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• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Ignorance, Rocks, Enlightened

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• Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it was done well. So energetically, again I felt like it was in line with punk rock and maybe hard rock, more than it was in line with R&B, which I never really liked.

  Rick Rubin

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.

  Ian Astbury

  Artist, Rocks, West

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• With the first kid, you micromanage it, making sure there's no hair out of place when it goes off to school. But by the third kid, it's more like, "Oh, you want to wear a splatter-painted, Hard Rock Café T-shirt for seven days in a row and not brush your hair? Go for it. Be who you want to be."

  Annie E. Clark

  School, Kids, Hair

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

  Roger Glover

  Rocks, Interesting, Bored

  Source: thequietus.com

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• McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as matériel, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology. Its symbols are Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Cadillac motorcars hoisted from the roadways, where they once represented a mode of transportation, to the marquees of global market cafés like Harley-Davidson's and the Hard Rock where they become icons of lifestyle.

  Benjamin Barber

  Icons, Rocks, Style

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• A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

  Art Alexakis

  Rocks, People, Singers

  "Clearly A Success / Art Alexakis isn't typical flighty rock star". Interview with James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. November 23, 1997.

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• There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the elitist coffeehouse culture in SoHo. It' s rock 'n' roll music for kids across the land, and I think that makes it much more subversive in a way, in that it has the form and the function of a powerful, populist music, but it can carry very incendiary messages.

  Tom Morello

  Powerful, Kids, Thinking

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• The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient;
  the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing:
  there is no pain as great as being alive,
  no burden heavier than that of conscious life.

  Ruben Dario

  Pain, Rocks, Tree

  Rubén Darío (2010). “Selected Poems of Rubén Darío”, p.90, University of Texas Press

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• The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.

  Izzy Stradlin

  Real, Rocks, Important

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• The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.

  Don Bluth

  Running, Sex, Rocks

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

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• I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

  Harry Reid

  Mom, Strong, Dad

  Democratic response to the State of the Union address, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2005.

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• Let me break it down for you again,
  You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine:
  Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.

  Lauryn Hill

  Rap, Rocks, Hip Hop

  Song: Doo Wop

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• I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

  Frances McDormand

  Rocks, Classic, Metals

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• Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Humble, Rocks

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• We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know?And it was such a turn around, I guess it caught people by surprise.

  Karen Carpenter

  Rocks, People, Surprise

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

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• I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

  Gary Cherone

  Rocks, Years, Band

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• Mister, I don't want no trouble. I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I don't even know what gingham is, but she goes through about ten rolls a week of that stuff. I ain't looking for no trouble, Mister.

  Bill Hicks

  Kids, Rocks, Wife

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• Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.

  Adam Rich

  Thinking, Rocks, Names

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