Rock Music Quotes

• The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

  Alice Cooper

  Hippie, And Love, Blonde

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• Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Rocks, Perfect, Music Is

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

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• Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Fun, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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

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  Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Music, Dance

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• I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

  Freddie Mercury

  Stars, Rocks, Singers

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  When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That's what rock and roll is about.

  Pete Townshend

  Running, Crazy, Rocks

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• Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

  Frank Zappa

  Rocks, Taste, Conservative

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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

  Rocks, Jazz, Intention

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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, Rocks, Dying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

  Tipper Gore

  Music, Rocks, Talking

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• This is Manchester, we do things differently here.

  Tony Wilson

  Different, Television, Punk Rock

  "No strings attached: why the trend for classical 'raves' needs to end" by John Thorp, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2016.

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• When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

  James Daly

  Rocks, People, Musician

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• People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time.

  Glenn Frey

  Love, Running, Dream

  Song: River Of Dreams

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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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• When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

  Chet Atkins

  Funny, Music, Dad

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• Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Song: 'Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)' ('Double Fantasy')". 1980.

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• I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me

  Freddie Mercury

  Romantic, Real, People

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• Art is my God, Music is my religion.

  Otep Shamaya

  Music, God, Art

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• Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth.

  Nick Cave

  Running, Rocks, People

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• Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

  David Bowie

  Clever, Fear, Recovery

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• But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.

  Prince

  Life, Song, Party

  Song: 1999 The Hits Mix

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• When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole

  John Lydon

  Funny, Attitude, Talking

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• The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it good on a horse's ass. I like to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I like to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way.

  Wesley Willis

  Music, Horse, Real

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