Rock Star Quotes

• I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

  David Bowie

  Graduation, Travel, Promise

  "Mourning David Bowie, Dead at 69" by Nicole Silverberg, www.gq.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.

  Alice Cooper

  Stars, Reading, Sleep

  "Rock is on a roll with politics" by Warren Kinsella, September 12, 2004.

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• I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

  Rod Stewart

  Soccer, Football, Stars

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• There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

  Josh Groban

  Funny, Stars, Rocks

  VH1.com, November 23, 2003.

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• Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Stars, Rocks, Play

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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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• If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one

  Marilyn Manson

  Stars, Rocks, Treated

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• I don't want to be a rock star all my life.
  I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.

  Mick Jagger

  Stars, Vegas, Rocks

  "Leader of the brand" by Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2005.

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• Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

  David Lee Roth

  Stars, Rocks, Details

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• All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

  John Mellencamp

  Stars, Rocks, Guitar

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• As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

  Bono

  Inspirational, Stars, Fun

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• International rock star - gravy maker extraordinaire.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Stars, Rocks, Makers

  "The Osbournes". Comedy, Music, Reality-TV, 2002–2005.

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

  David Bowie

  Glam Rock, Life And Death, Music And Life

  Rolling Stone #206, February 12, 1976.

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• Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

  Seymour Stein

  Musician, Classical Music

  Source: thequietus.com

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• As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

  David Bowie

  Two, Long, Music And Life

  "David Bowie, 21st-Century Entrepreneur". Interview with Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. June 9, 2002.

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• In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

  Bono

  Stars, Rocks, Views

  2001 Harvard University Class Day Address, delivered 6 June 2001

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• When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

  Chris Martin

  Stars, College, Rocks

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

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• I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

  David Bowie

  Music, Stars, Water

  "'I'm an Instant Star': The Definitive List of David Bowie's Best Quotes". nationalpost.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.

  Noel Gallagher

  Stars, Rocks, Enough

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• Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stars, Rocks, Burning

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.84, Penguin

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• You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Stars, Fun, Dirty

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• The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.

  Donatella Versace

  Stars, Men, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

  Alice Cooper

  Stars, Rocks, Order

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

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• Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.

  Vince Neil

  Stars, Rocks, People

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• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

  Elvis Presley

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)

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