Rock Song Quotes

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  In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

  Paul McCartney

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Song: Golden Slumbers

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• It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

  Neil Young

  Death, Running, Believe

  "My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (song) (1978). The last sentence was quoted by singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain in his suicide note, 8 Apr. 1994. See Richard Cumberland 1

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• Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Ignorance

  Song: Strawberry Fields Forever

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• Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.

  David Lee Roth

  Song, Rocks, Guitar

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• Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Heart, Rocks

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• What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Rocks, Loud

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

  Clancy Brown

  Lovely, Highlander, Famous Last Words

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• I've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you can do serious writing in a rock song if you can somehow do it without losing the beat.

  Lou Reed

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  "Outsider Whose Dark, Lyrical Vision Helped Shape Rock 'n' Roll" by Ben Ratliff, www.nytimes.com. October 27, 2013.

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• If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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

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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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• A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

  Kurt Cobain

  Self, Miserable, Highlander

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• Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Frank Bruno

  I Love You, Romantic, Break Up

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• Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

  Bruce Springsteen

  Song, Rocks, Variation

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• I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Teenager, Cutting

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

  Joe Elliott

  Song, Rocks, 80s

  "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard" by Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.

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• Whether it be a reggae song, rock song, a love song, the main thing was just to, whatever I was feeling, to try to capture that emotion.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Rocks, Feelings

  "Bruno Mars: A Q&A with the artist about new album 'Unorthodox Jukebox'". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.csmonitor.com. December 19, 2012.

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• I am a firm believer in playing the type of music that compliments the song the best. If it's a folk song make it sound like one. If it's a rock song make it sound like one, if it's a rap song take it off the record.

  William Clark Green

  Song, Rap, Rocks

  Source: countrymusicrocks.net

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• To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.

  PSY

  Song, Rocks, Korea

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• Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

  Don Dokken

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 13, 2008.

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• The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

  Sheryl Crow

  Song, Rocks, Band

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• I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.

  Sara Bareilles

  Song, Rocks, Flip

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• I don't really listen to rock music anymore. But were I to write a song that sounded like it could be a rock song, I'd probably give it to the Pornographers, and I'd be excited to try to make it work.

  Dan Bejar

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Well, after Zombie Birdhouse came out, I toured behind it in the fall of 1982, into the spring, and in the summer in the Far East. At that time, I found my work self-referential; it was getting to be rock songs about a rock singer who lived a rock life on the rock road, and I was starting to wonder what I would be like to rent my own apartment, what it would be like to have a checkbook.

  Iggy Pop

  Summer, Song, Spring

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.

  Bryce Dessner

  Song, Emotional, Rocks

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