Rock Music Quotes - Page 7

• Sometimes I'm trying to communicate a feeling. Sometimes I can't piece it together into any kind of coherant thesis. I'm just trying to evoke some kind of mood, and put some kind of idea in somebody's head. If Marshall McLuhan or Harold Innis were looking at it, they would tell you that the genre of rock music isn't the best way to deliver a political message because it distorts it, it makes it into entertainment. Perhaps the best political message is just to speak it to somebody. I think that's something I'm always writing about in songs, just how to mediate, how to present something.

  A.C. Newman

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• By that point, I was about 12, 13 years old. I was this young black kid into rock music, which was kind of strange. People would always assume I'd be into like more modern R&B, which is a stereotype, but that was kind of what was expected. And I had all these guitar magazines of all these musicians that didn't look like me. So I assumed Jimmi Hendrix was one of those.

  Michael Kiwanuka

  Kids, People, Black

  "Michael Kiwanuka: For Those Who Think Young". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 28, 2012.

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• I never really liked the lyrics or the sameness of the music. It always seemed to have the same rhythm or whatever. But when it turned a little more rock, I kind of liked it. I like what Kid Rock did to country. I like all the modern, new stuff that's coming out, and it just so happens that my boyfriend is not a country player, but he was a rock musician.

  P. J. Soles

  Country, Kids, Player

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and Oasis, and all of those really great bands that were of a certain style. If I'd really been smart and commercially minded, I would have just got myself a blazer and some Stay Press and some Fred Perry tops, and just gone out and tried to do it like everyone else. Instead, I did this ridiculous thing of trying to do this music.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Smart, Rocks, Oasis

  Source: collider.com

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• I grew up during the Communist time. When I was a student and I especially wanted to play rock, that was a problem for all rock musicians in the Soviet Union. My friends liked it, but all the Communist officials, bureaucrats, teachers, didn't like this. There was very powerful propaganda against capitalism and the Western ideology. Everything that was connected to the West - rock music, jeans, long hair, loud music - everything was not allowed. But luckily that's now in the past. I hope.

  Albert Kuvezin

  Teacher, Powerful, Past

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Understanding Meronian - my own language - is a psychic process which succeeds when we break through the boundaries of comprehension and reach for what's beyond our limited perception. Its ambiguousness is related to the ambiguousness of music, and it doesn't guide us too much towards semantic domains. It contains all the necessary meaning required in our rock music.

  Jussi Lehtisalo

  Understanding, Perception, Succeed

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In Germany there's something about rock music much more political than it really is - like everything you were doing was an indictment of the American culture. I read an interview with one of the members of Sebadoh. He was saying he had just got back from touring Germany for the first time in five years or whatever, and one of the interviewers asked him, "Why aren't you still relevant?"

  John Flansburgh

  Political, Culture, First Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Any time having international interviews is a language barrier, you don't know how much you need to simplify what you're saying for it not to be damaged in translation. But culturally, there are some interesting phenomena. I get the feeling that the way rock music gets described in Germany, it is all like Rolling Stone circa 1975, taken to the 10th power. If you're a rock musician, you're part of the counterculture. Your music is like a critique of everything that is wrong with America.

  John Flansburgh

  Taken, Interesting, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All rock music is fake news.

  John Flansburgh

  Fake, Music Is

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I always think that people think that women in music are always angry. I'm not angry. Rock 'n' roll music made by men is so much more over-the-top aggressive than when a women says "you" and they're screaming it, it's like, 'Oh my God!' I'm like, 'Have you heard rock music made by men?'

  Beth Ditto

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• Commercial record has never interested me. It's amazing I was in a band like The Police that had such phenomenal commercial success. Part of what made The Police what it was was that we didn't all come in with obvious mainstream musical tastes. We were a rock band and somehow we had to make rock music, but it was informed by a lot of things outside of the mainstream for sure.

  Andy Summers

  Police, Musical, Obvious

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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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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• Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

  Dolly Parton

  Husband, Rocks, Fans

  "Dolly Parton on Her Goddaughter Miley Cyrus and Why Her Husband Doesn’t Like Her Music". Interview with Ian Drew, www.usmagazine.com. May 12, 2014.

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• Elvis Presley is  the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.

  Peter Noone

  Father, Rocks, Civilization

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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, Rocks, Guy

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• I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

  Gary Cole

  Thinking, Rocks, Music Love

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• The story of The Doors is one of the most compelling in the history of American rock music; three hugely talented musicians and a lead singer whose commitment to artistic freedom was so intense he rocketed them to a success that always hovered on the edge of chaos. As an independent filmmaker this sensibility affected me greatly.

  Tom DiCillo

  Independent, Commitment, Rocks

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• I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, lets be honest!

  Fefe Dobson

  Country, Rocks, Honest

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• So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

  Warren Jeffs

  Race, Rocks, Black

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• When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

  Trevor Horn

  Dad, Rocks, People

  "Horn of plenty". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2004.

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• Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food

  Steve Albini

  Rocks, Cooking, Musician

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• Rock concerts are the churches of today.

  Craig Chaquico

  Rocks, Church, Satanic

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• Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

  Justin Sane

  Kids, Squares, Rocks

  "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.

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• I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.

  Win Butler

  Thinking, Rocks, Media

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• It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Reality, Rocks, Support

  Chuck Klosterman (2007). “Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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