“I get noticed for different things I've done in different areas of town. If I'm in a rock club, it'll be Skid Row, if I'm in a mall it's the 'Gilmore Girls.'” IfsDifferentDoneGirlRocksAreasTownsClubsDifferent ThingsMallsGilmore GirlsSkid Row Author:Sebastian Bach
“Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” StillsIdeasBigsMightFoundEnergyAliveRocksSucceedDaughterAreasDeterminationDirectFoundationBottomPretendingFinishingTypewritersGreatest FearBig IdeasStrippingSolid FoundationDetermination To SucceedStripping Away Author:J. K. Rowling
“Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles” RecordsRocksBandAreasEnglandAlbumsStoresLos AngelesChicagoMailPunkPunk RockSwedenRecord Stores Author:Dave Grohl
“I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.” TogetherRocksMusicianAreasStudiosRock Musicians Author:Ken Hensley
“Capricorn was one of the homes of the Southern rock movement with the Allman Brothers and Charlie Daniels and the Marshall Tucker Band. I don't think you can come from that area and not be influenced by that stuff a little bit, no matter what generation you grew up in.” ThinkingLittlesMatterHomeStuffBitsGenerationsRocksMovementBrotherGrewBandLittle BitGrew UpAreasNo Matter WhatSouthernCharlieCapricorns Author:Jason Aldean
“Tony Iommi - the undisputed king of demonic heavy rock riffs. In this area, no one had never surpassed him.” RocksKingsAreasHeavyDemonicUndisputed Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star ... Today people can idolize a star in one area and forget about him in another. A big rock star might sell millions and millions of records, but then if he makes a bad movie ... forget it.” PeopleIfsWholeBigsMightTodayFilmUsedStarsForgetMillionsRecordsFansRocksAreasAnd LoveSellsForget ItRock StarBad Movies Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.” PeopleThreeAsksFourRocksAreasMusicalAsk MeRock And RollChords Author:Joan Jett
“Columbia Heights was a poor, messed up area, and the church was in the middle of it. What happened inside was a reflection of the community. I actually saw my first rock concert on the altar of that church [St. Stephen's].” FirstsCommunityChurchPoorSawsHappenedMiddleRocksReflectionAreasHeightConcertsAltarsMessed UpColumbiaRock Concerts Author:Ian MacKaye
“The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to do with the kind of ballistic calculations you need to hit small game with a rock.” NeedsKindGamesBrainRocksSpeechAreasConnectedParallelsCalculationsProcessors Author:Howard Rheingold