Rock Star Quotes - Page 13

• My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.

  Tracy Morgan

  Stars, Dad, Father

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• Rock stars are idiots. You know that! Remember this moron never went to music school, never learned music theory and can't read or write music. So why not be suspicious of everything this idiot says?

  Gene Simmons

  Stars, School, Writing

  Source: www.noise11.com

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• Everything's immediately diminished. That's why there's no real rock stars anymore. People are too accessible.

  Matthew Healy

  Stars, Real, Rocks

  "The 1975's Matt Healy on That Time Usher Mistook Him for Skrillex". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2016.

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• The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Stars, Rocks, Issues

  Source: collider.com

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• The late '90s were a really bad time for people trying to be rock stars, you know what I mean? It seemed like everyone was a one-hit wonder on the radio. We had friends who had a hit single on the radio and sold 500,000 records, and then they couldn't get arrested a year later. I had this feeling at the time that that was not possible anymore, so the idea of becoming the biggest band in the country—it seemed laughable. I felt that having those sort of ambitions was foolish, because there was no way that was going to be possible. If you saw it that way, you were just deluding yourself.

  Ben Gibbard

  Country, Ambition, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?

  Chris Robinson

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

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

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• I'm going to say this tonight because 20 years from now, 30 years from now, 40 years from now, I might not be able to say it, but I can say it tonight….You are now watching the greatest living rock star on the planet.

  Kanye West

  Stars, Rocks, Years

  "The Who’s Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey Throw Shade at Kanye West at Glastonbury: Details!" by Sophie Vokes-Dudgeon, www.usmagazine.com. June 29, 2015.

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• A lot of stand-up specials for cable are meant to glorify the comedian. They put you in a really beautiful theater, and sometimes they even blow a little smoke in there to make it misty and sweet. They make the guy look like he's a big rock star. But comedy's not really glamorous. It doesn't enhance comedy for it to look good.

  Louis C. K.

  Beautiful, Sweet, Stars

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols.

  Jon Landau

  Stars, Boys, Rocks

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• An actor goes crazy in a hotel room, gets trashed, throws a bench, breaks a window, and he is considered a rock star. An actress does that and she’s sent to rehab and is thought to have problems and issues and can’t get a job.

  Mila Kunis

  Jobs, Stars, Crazy

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• I have friends from rock stars to Rastas; I don't even know what an unexpected friend is.

  Rihanna

  Stars, Rocks, Rasta

  Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2015.

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• First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!

  Wally Lamb

  Stars, Book, Rocks

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• I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.

  Jann Wenner

  Stars, Fun, Rocks

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• You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.

  Benjamin Percy

  Stars, Moving, Rocks

  "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.

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• I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying. Which I am not recommending teenagers do if they read this.

  Kristen Wiig

  Stars, Teenager, School

  Interview with Dave Grohl, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 19, 2011.

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• A rock star does not age!

  Anthony Kiedis

  Stars, Rocks, Age

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• My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.

  Tracy Morgan

  Stars, Dad, Father

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• Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star. I was a coke star.

  George Jung

  Stars, Rocks, Coke

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's that old cliché which has a lot of basis in truth, that all music journalists are failed rock stars. They all harbour the inner feeling they should be up under the spotlight and the microphone is there for them.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Stars, Rocks, Feelings

  Source: www.elsewhere.co.nz

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• If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Stars, Passion, Writing

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.

  Brett Dennen

  Stars, Men, Rocks

  Source: www.uncommonmusic.org

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• Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell designer jeans, shampoo, and rock stars. Why, we might end up with people whos attention span for the printed word is longer than the time it takes to read a T-shirt.

  Jim Trelease

  Stars, Book, Creativity

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• Ninety-nine percent of girls want to be models because they believe it will mean that they are the most beautiful women in the world. They think that they will wear expensive clothes, makes loads of money, travel a lot and have a rock star for a boyfriend. This never interested me. I didn't want anyone to scream out my name. I wanted to make art, to create an image with a photographer. And yes, I wanted to get out of Clinton, Mississippi - a small town that was so closed-minded you can't even imagine.

  Crystal Renn

  Beautiful, Girl, Art

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Even some rock star girls, which I didn't really know her name. I will probably find out and probably get slaughtered for not knowing her name, but she brought some of her clothes that she used to wear on stage. I wore one of the corsets and stuff. I don't know why I'm blanking. It was not Pat Benatar. It's like Debbie Gibson, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, I know those girls.

  Julianne Hough

  Girl, Stars, Clothes

  "Julianne Hough & Diego Boneta Interview, Rock of Ages". www.moviesonline.ca.

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• When I'm on the phone with a listener or I meet someone one-on-one, and they're on the lowest rung of hell and they open up, I realize, hey, this isn't about being a DJ anymore. When you're with people who are going through a difficult part of life, that's sacred space. That's better than any trophy or meeting a rock star.

  Terri Hemmert

  People, Realizing, Hell

  "Los Angeles Times Interview: Hugh Hefner: in the Shadow of Aids, Examining What's Left of the Sexual Revolution". articles.chicagotribune.com. February 23, 2014.

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