Rocks Quotes - Page 10

• I've been recording myself since grade 10. Back then, it was just really crappy rock stuff.

  Ryan Hemsworth

  Stuff, Grades

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.

  Blake Judd

  Running, Stars, Fun

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was always concerned with making cool-sounding rock records.

  A.C. Newman

  Records, Concerned

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary.

  Michael Gira

  Animal, Rock Music, Wanted

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I started going to rock shows at a really young age, and seeing other young people make music definitely influenced me.

  Frankie Cosmos

  People, Age, Young

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Play, Important, West

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Band, Wanted, Rock Bands

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

  Cass McCombs

  People, Working Together, Rock N Roll

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that.

  Bradford Cox

  Running, Medicine, Healthy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• One thing that got me started on it was the jean jacket. It's an item that could make you believe you're in the 50s or punk-rock 70s or grunge 90s. I was really focused on timelessness, and I think music is very timeless.

  Drew Barrymore

  Believe, Thinking, Punk

  "Best Coast: Our Deal". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

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• The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those inspirational factors that drove rock'n'roll, gospel, and blues. I tend not to value a more pop aesthetic.

  DJ Shadow

  Sadness, Rock N Roll, Pops

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like whatever's good. Metal, rock, new or old - I don't care, as long as it does something to my brain.

  Chris Reifert

  Long, Brain, Doe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In indie rock, there's the phenomenon of: "Oh, this guy seems totally normal, but he's actually crazy." There's more of that out there than you'd think.

  Tom Scharpling

  Crazy, Thinking, Indie Rock

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You didn't have to be a huge rock star; you just had to do well enough to continue doing what you wanted to do. It wasn't about hitting the jackpot, it was about sustainability.

  Michael Azerrad

  Stars, Hitting, Sustainability

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Critics and fans use the music of their youth as reference points. For years, people seriously wondered who "the next Beatles" were going to be, and classic rock bands were the de facto yardstick for rock quality.

  Michael Azerrad

  Years, People, Quality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

  Michael Azerrad

  Indie Rock, Generations, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

  Justin Vernon

  Indie Rock, Independence, Mindfulness

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• With a four-string, the middle range is less of an option. That kind of 5th that you play on those A and D strings isn't there. So a lot of traditional rock sounds, you can't play them. But to be honest, there was no particular intention when I started playing with four strings. It just worked out that way and it sounded cool.

  Bill Orcutt

  Play, Four, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

  Mark Kozelek

  Musician, Levels, Touring

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind of quiet-storm format uses a lot of these sounds.

  Dan Bejar

  Thinking, Storm, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it.

  Colin Stetson

  Band, Phases, Grunge

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Back in the day I used to drive with a rock just in case.

  Gonjasufi

  Back In The Day, Used, Cases

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

  Kieran Hebden

  Father, Soul, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Hip Hop, Stuff

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.

  Rokia Traore

  Country, Unique, Thinking

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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