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“After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing of pop music and rock music, I don't think anyone really believes that music is anything more than another commodity.”

Thinking Believe Stars Rocks Music Is Marketing Pops Naked Shooting Commodity Pop Music Rock Music Lennon Early Death

Author:Stephen Fry

“I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female singers. I like Nirvana, Green Day, System Of A Down. I also like punk rock, and I love bands like Coldplay.”

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Author:Avril Lavigne

“I'm definitely really into rock music, and I feel like that is where my heart is.”

Feels Heart Rocks My Heart Rock Music

Author:Avril Lavigne

“I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.”

Knows Kind School Middle Rocks Punk Rock Music Middle School Punk Music

Author:Chris McCaughan

“To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.”

Thinking Needs Should Hate Parent Mystery Rocks Safe Elements Meant To Be Intrigue Rock Music

Author:Trent Reznor

“I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.”

World Country Whole Sides Behinds Support Issues Rocks Republican Democrat Candidates Our World Bowls Rock Music Super Bowl Generalization

Author:Brandi Carlile

“I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.”

Real Self Wanted Voice Behinds Rocks Personality Rock Music Cover Ups

Author:Ariel Pink

“In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.”

Hands Hate Sound Interest Perfect Records Rocks Music Is Window I Hate Studios Tunes Vocal Rock Music Grids Auto Tune

Author:Taylor Hawkins

“Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ.”

Christian Jesus Christ Religious Rocks Musician Jesus Christ Consistent Treatment Rock Music Disdain Irreverent Rock Musicians

Book:The Spirit-Filled Family

Source: The Spirit-Filled Family

“That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.”

Thinking Rocks Honest Music Is Authenticity Rock Music

Author:Jonathan Jackson

“Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion”

Rocks Music Is Vehicle Rock Music Anti Religion

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Parents, preachers, and politicians think rock music is the source of young people's despair. They don't understand it's just a reflection. They also forget that music can be a source of hope, a reason to live.”

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Book:Wicked Game

Source: Wicked Game

“Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for”

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Author:Yuja Wang

“I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.”

Political Voice Heard Rocks Messages Liberation Rock Music

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I don't only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn't want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.”

Want Kind Form Interesting Rocks Heavy Metals Rock Music Heavy Metal

Author:Mick Jagger

“I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both.”

Thinking Bigs Rocks Taste Hip Hop Hips Hops Rock Music Umbrella Taste In Music

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music though.”

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Author:DJ Khaled

“I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.”

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Author:Rob Chapman

“Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the movie or not, is just when I come up with the idea itself before I have actually sat down and started writing. I go into my record room... I have a big vinyl collection and I have a room kind of set up like a used record store and I just dive into my music, whether it be rock music, or lyric music, or my soundtrack collection. What I'm looking for is the spirit of the movie, the beat that the movie will play with.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I don't think rock music has any positive function.”

Thinking Rocks Function Rock Music

Author:Charlton Heston

“When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as a listener, and Revival gave me a way to write about rock and roll without being preachy or boring.”

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Author:Stephen King

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”

“Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel that way at all. I just think it's different. It's different. There's rock music, there's jazz music, there's reggae music: All of those forms are different.”

Thinking Way Feels Trying Different Form Comedy Rocks Clean Jazz Statements Dirty Jazz Music Rock Music Reggae Reggae Music

Author:Brian Regan

“I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.”

Thinking Art Rocks Band Musician Radical Punk Psychedelic Rock Music Punk Rock Rock Musicians

Author:Wayne Coyne

“We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.”

Different Next Change Rocks Style Spring Albums Rock Music

Author:Neil Tennant

“If you love someone, set them free.”

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Author:Sting

“In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.”

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Author:William Boyd

“What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to dance to in the club and the repetitiveness, whereas in rock music there is literally, like, balls-to-the-wall singing and playing. I love it.”

Rocks Wall Music Is Beats Singing Balls Clubs Pops Fantastic Melody 80s Pop Music Rock Music Techno Balls To The Wall

Author:Julianne Hough

“The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.”

Rocks Genius Music Is Rock Music Hysteria Matched

Author:Don DeLillo

“With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to record an album. But for a hip-hop song, you can create a track and an idea with verses and choruses in a day, and get three different people on it. It seems like you're able to do more with hip-hop.”

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Author:Travis Barker

“It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.”

Seems Natural Common Rocks Fool Rapper Rock Music

Author:Travis Barker

“A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Let's return to our purity and our idealism while we have this shot.”

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Author:Courtney Love

“I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain preference too, be honest.”

Ifs Certain Asks Rocks Honest Being Honest Ask Me Preference Rock Music Adaptable

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.”

Church Rocks Radio Priests Guru Rock Music Djs Rabbi

Author:Steven Van Zandt

“There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the elitist coffeehouse culture in SoHo. It' s rock 'n' roll music for kids across the land, and I think that makes it much more subversive in a way, in that it has the form and the function of a powerful, populist music, but it can carry very incendiary messages.”

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Author:Tom Morello

“If you're going for things that are really terrible ideas you have to really have all your faculties about you to get away with them without being crucified. The best rock music gets away with something, somehow, that it shouldn't be allowed to get away with.”

Ifs Ideas Rocks Terrible Get Away Faculty Rock Music

Author:Will Sheff

“I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.”

Thinking World Want Rocks Industry Rock Music Nashville Do Whatever You Want

Author:Lucinda Williams

“Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.”

Wells Rocks Music Is Fantastic Melody 80s Rock Music

Author:Julianne Hough

“I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and Oasis, and all of those really great bands that were of a certain style. If I'd really been smart and commercially minded, I would have just got myself a blazer and some Stay Press and some Fred Perry tops, and just gone out and tried to do it like everyone else. Instead, I did this ridiculous thing of trying to do this music.”

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Author:Gavin Rossdale

“Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth.”

People Should Trying Made Running Young Rocks Youth Music Is Pairs Provinces Rock Music Tights Spandex

Author:Nick Cave

“Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it.”

World Hard Facts Technology Heard Rocks Music Is Squares Sophisticated Rock Music

Book:Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value

Source: Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value

“You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do.”

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Author:Stuart Hamm

“It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time, I don't think we're stuck in the past or retro. I think we've tried to push ourselves and experiment with what we can call Wilco music.”

People Thinking Age Past Remember Rocks Stuck Experiments Rooted Rock Music Older People Retro Stuck In The Past

Author:Jeff Tweedy

“Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.”

Bigs Rocks Music Is India Rhythm Indian Melody Chords Rock Music Drumming Intricacy

Author:Jonny Greenwood

“Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe.”

Sound Rocks Making Love Rock Music Octopus Bagpipes

Author:Brother Dave Gardner

“There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.”

Want Seems Lines Deals Taken Too Much Rocks Band Musician Income Flight Hotel Inclination Rock Music Carefree Rock Musicians

Author:Ian Anderson

“We played more rock music when we were writing the script. 'Renegade'. All of the Styx songs. All of the old '70's and '80's music, that's the stuff that's pounding in the background while we were doing this stuff. It's a part of those movies.”

Writing Song Stuff Rocks Scripts Backgrounds Rock Music Renegades Styx

Author:Todd Farmer

“I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old.”

Years Mistake Rocks Seven Seven Years Rock Music

Author:Jello Biafra

“I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate labels and their bands were the new establishment, and punk was there to fight them the way the activist hippies must have fought what the establishment must have been ten years before. And it was interesting to see the reactions in different parts of the country.”

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Author:Jello Biafra

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