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Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything - why can't I?
I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.
The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.
I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
I grew up listening to blues and rock n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.
I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. It's kind of like a rock ballad. There's a lot of guitars and drums in it.
I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz.
To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people.
Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.
You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.
I was enamored with music at a very young age. Everything started with kundiman, then evolved to Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, and eventually classic rock music.
What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone.
A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.
I've been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it 'Rock on!' 'The Last Lear' or 'Raajneeti,' directors started working in a different way.
I'm actually sometimes nervous right before a performance, but as soon as I'm on the stage I'm like, 'okay, we're gonna rock this baby.'
Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust.
In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.
Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.
I've been to Australia a couple of times, but never to the north or the centre. I would love to see Ayers Rock.
I had this thing about hanging out in dark theaters. My family thought I grew out of a rock.
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
My parents were into The Mills Brothers, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughn, and all those people sung the most wonderful songs - and even when I got into rock 'n' roll, that stayed with me.
O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always, 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.
Hearing a lot of early rock n' roll records from a very young age was a huge influence.
I plug into a lot of old rock & roll. Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis - I love all that stuff.
What we admit to is being a rock n' roll band. From day one, I was a big Chuck Berry fan.
The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.
Rock 'n' roll... but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.
What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.
I don't know what metalcore is. I know what rock n' roll is... It's not rocket science.
'School of Rock' is fun. Hopefully, I've fleshed it out with a few catchy songs and kept the spirit of the original movie.
What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.
I'd been watching documentaries about early rock where white artists took 'race records' from blues and soul musicians to achieve mass appeal. I wanted to flip that and do an EP covering only white artists.
The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
People had this idea about becoming rock stars packing stadiums instead of having the goal of becoming what musicians used to be in terms of how they would perform and connect people.
My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.
'30 Rock' is probably one of my favorite shows. It's just joke after joke after joke.
My first album was all rock. I used to sing rock en espanol, but I don't think many people remember that.
Teachers want to teach you theory, and that's fine, but when it comes to rock and roll, you only need three chords. There's something comforting about that.
'American Psycho' reminds me of my track in 'Tommy,' my first Broadway show. It's similar conceptually and has that rock n' roll streak.
'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.
It was really my experience at Standing Rock that was pretty pivotal for me because I saw how corporations were literally militarizing themselves against American citizens so that they could kind of maximize their profit margins on fossil fuels.
I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.
I jumped off a cliff backwards for 'I Am Number Four,' which was pretty cool. I'd never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.
I love the feeling of touching the rock, the feeling of my body going up the rock.
Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
I like songs in all different genres and types. My production and songwriting is everything from pop rock to hip-hop and everything in between.
Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.
Rock and roll's relatively new, in the sense of the Fifties, Sixties, right? They invented the first sort of rock stars, and they took it to excess, and then the excess became bitter, tormented. Then it became okay to succeed.
There is enough material in the Kuiper Belt to build anything out there. We could gobble up all the little asteroids, filtering out all the volatile materials, leaving us with bits of rock and using that to make some incredible structures.
I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.
A lot of what I've done has a rock edge, even going back to 'Little Shop of Horrors.'
Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
I'm touched by rock n' roll. I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that.
Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.
Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.
House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.
I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.
I used to live in Chris Rock's former apartment. I've got some junk mail for him if he wants it.
In the seventeenth century, a French missionary in Canada reported a 'strange legend' circulating among the Hurons. They told of a monster with a 'horn' that could pierce anything, even rock.
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
My brother really shaped my musical taste when I was younger. He turned me on to classic rock like Led Zeppelin, and then he got me into R.E.M. and U2.
Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.
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