Rock Star Quotes - Page 2

• I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.

  Billy Joel

  Stars, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Being a rock star is really a 24-hour-a-day job, and you really can't escape it.

  Kim Thayil

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Running, Stars, Rocks

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• A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.

  David Bowie

  Song, Stars, Philosophy

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.35, Melville House

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• The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

  Nick Cave

  Stars, Rocks, Tragedy

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• There's this celebrity thing that goes along with making records or being a rock star. I'm into this celebrity thing just enough to let me go on making records and making a living out of it.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Stars, Rocks, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

  Thomas Friedman

  Stars, Keys, Rocks

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• I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.

  Elton John

  Stars, Rocks, Individuality

  "A star is reborn". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2004.

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• I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

  Kanye West

  Stars, Rocks, Breathing

  "Kanye West, the Transformer, on his New Album Yeezus and Kim Kardashian" by Christopher Bagley, www.wmagazine.com. June 19, 2013.

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• I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

  Sunny Mabrey

  Stars, Rocks, Play

  "Collider Interviews Sunny Mabrey and Michael Angarano". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 5, 2006.

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• You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

  David Bowie

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

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• My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Jobs, Stars, Rocks

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• As a member of Fleetwood Mac, for two weeks I was still working at the restaurant because I'd given them notice. I didn't just want to walk in there and say, "'I'm going to be a famous rock star so I quit and I never liked your food anyway".

  Stevie Nicks

  Stars, Rocks, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Rocks

  Mike Douglas Show in 1972. "John Lennon: In His Own Words", Book by Ken Lawrence, p. 107, 2005.

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• Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Writing, Humor

  Quoted in Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 1978

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• I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

  Gene Simmons

  Stars, Rocks, Firefighter

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• I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'

  Al Yankovic

  Stars, Mirrors, Rocks

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• If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Stars, Rocks, Like You

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

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• If anybody wants to be a rock star they've gotta try hard enough. They're not gonna get it handed to them

  Marilyn Manson

  Stars, Rocks, Trying

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• I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.

  Ron White

  Stars, Rocks, Sound

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• More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.

  Martin Gore

  Stars, Rocks, Accepted

  "Depeche Mode: 'We're dysfunctional. Maybe that's what makes us tick'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2013.

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• What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.

  Courtney Love

  Stars, Rocks, Rockstars

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• We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

  Eddie Vedder

  Stars, Rocks, Trying

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• I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

  David Bowie

  Needs, Way, Individual

  "Remembering David Bowie" by Rose Caiola, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2016.

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• If somebody had told me that you have a choice of
  being a rock star or playing left field for the Tigers,
  there would not have been a choice at all. I would
  have said, 'Where's my locker?'

  Alice Cooper

  Stars, Rocks, Choices

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