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Kurt Cobain is one of the reasons I started doing music because I just loved to watch them rock out.
I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
I love St. Vincent. She is like our queer rock goddess and that's so needed.
The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.
Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - and well into the '60s - was two and a half minutes. It's very hard to put that much songwriting into two and a half minutes.
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.
But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it.
I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.
In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.
I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us had any instruments.
As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock.
I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.
Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.
My first vinyl was a Kiss record and a Walt Disney record. I liked the energy of rock and roll.
I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.
You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.
And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.
I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock.
Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.
Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.
As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.
My parents raised me on Spooky Tooth and The Band, Derek and the Dominoes, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, all that stuff. Rock n' roll was just in my subconscious.
Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.
I don't know a lot of Kasabian's music. I am into rock music but I don't know their stuff.
I was watching TV once, and 'Jailhouse Rock' comes on, and I'm like, 'What is this?' I started watching it, and at the end, I thought, 'This is what I want to do. That's what I want to be. That's for me. That's it!'
It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.
In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.
I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.
Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.
The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.
People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.
I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.
What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way to encapsulate it in a form that made the public finally get industrial music.
I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.
James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.
Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.
When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.
The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
I've got two lives. Weekends, I go out and play rock star. Weekdays, I play granddad. You can't beat that.
We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.
I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.
We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.
I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.
The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.
As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
I look at some of my fans at my show, and a lot of them look like they're straight out of a punk rock show. They like what I'm coming across with. I had seen them same thing when I went to this Scarface show, so it lets me know that I'm on the right track.
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
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