Rocks Quotes - Page 11

• I was never ready to give up, but I did get words of confidence to move forward from a few musicians that had climbed up the totem pole of rock. They were encouraging words that struck a nerve with me and made me stronger.

  Lita Ford

  Giving Up, Moving, Encouraging Words

  "The Runaways Rocker Lita Ford on "Living Like a Runaway". Interview with Jeff Doles, www.hollywoodchicago.com. March 10, 2016.

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• In the rock 'n roll slang world, they're called rock doctors, or rock docs. They would come out to shows and like to hang backstage. You could get a prescription for anything you want from them. They just want to hang out and party. It's crazy because you can get a prescription to anything. It doesn't even matter what kind of doctor they are.

  Reginald Arvizu

  Crazy, Party, Doctors

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.

  David Pajo

  Metal Fans, America, Towns

  "Dead Child". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.

  David Pajo

  Beautiful, Trying, Want

  "Dead Child". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• Licensing is how indie rock people make a living these days, so whatever about that. But I want good films and good placement for the songs because I want to be exclusive. I don't want to just sign it away because I don't want songs to lose meaning, but I'm also...I don't care [that] Wilco sold songs to Volkswagen. That's great. They probably drive Volkswagens.

  Justin Vernon

  Song, Indie Rock, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• More and more into natural feelings rather than convoluted feelings or tastemaking or what have you. You always need critique, rock critics, but you can't take away people's taste. People are starting to, very slowly, do their own thing.

  Justin Vernon

  People, Feelings, Needs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For many years I wanted to be a rock star but of course that didn't work out. I did however write on napkins and pieces of paper sentences and occurrences. I decided maybe I should write a book because I had been writing so much. I'm actually writing a book based on The Room that will hopefully be published soon.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Stars, Book, Writing

  "The Room. Worst movie ever made?". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca.

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• I hit rock bottom when I was doing "The Brady Brides." I was supposed to be at the studio, screen testing to pick the guy that would play my husband. At this time, I had been up for three days doing coke and was playing solitaire in my closet.

  Maureen McCormick

  Husband, Play, Guy

  "Maureen McCormick: 'I hit rock bottom'". TODAY interview, www.today.com. October 14, 2008.

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• People have a hard time going to a club and seeing this business tool on stage that's wholly indicative of everything that rock is not. Rock is not about sitting in an office setting up documents, yet they see someone on stage doing that.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Hard Times, People, Office

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My whole view of music completely flipped over on its head. I grew up listening to punk rock, SST. I liked people that were making music that weren't necessarily very good at their instruments, it was more about the ideas they had than how well they could play and sing.

  Doug Martsch

  Ideas, Views, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I hope to incorporate more variety of beats, more syncopation. It becomes very easy to play straight beats; straight rock is alluring.

  Brian Chippendale

  Play, Easy, Beats

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

  Brian Chippendale

  People, Radio, Tire

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

  Colin Meloy

  Stuff, Records, Punk

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

  Matt Berninger

  Thinking, Rock And Roll, Perspective

  "The National". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. February 5, 2006.

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• Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a band called the Flying Luttenbachers. Go see the Flying Luttenbachers when they're in your town. He's one of the greatest rock composers who ever lived, and he's struggling and living like a poverty-stricken hermit.

  Glenn Branca

  Struggle, Blow, Oakland

  Interview with Simon Dasher, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2006.

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• When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

  Craig Finn

  Rock N Roll, Band, Ridiculous

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.

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• I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could get on a car stereo. Once you get a car at that age, you're spending all the time you can away from home, sometimes just driving around aimlessly. Listening, or not even listening, but subconsciously soaking up this classic rock barrage.

  Craig Finn

  School, Home, College

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.

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• People can rock together, people can do great things together, and that's what you love when you're working with characters and it's all going well.

  Jamie Lidell

  Character, People, Together

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all.

  Matt Tong

  Long, Band, Findings

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist.

  Matt Tong

  Real, Lineage, Problem

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate.

  Matt Tong

  Growing Up, Singers, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.

  Matt Tong

  Real, Enemy, Too Much

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail.

  Paul Banks

  Hip Hop, Tails, Firsts

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

  Dan Bejar

  Expression, Names, Way

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

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• I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.

  Dan Bejar

  Mean, Kids, Garden

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

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