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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.”

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Author:Tommy Wiseau

“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.”

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Author:Maureen McCormick

“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.”

People Hard Seeing Rocks Stage Office Sitting Tools Clubs Setting Settings Hard Times Documents

Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman

“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.”

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Author:Doug Martsch

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

Play Easy Rocks Beats Variety Alluring Syncopation

Author:Brian Chippendale

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

People Rocks Radio Tire Grunge

Author:Brian Chippendale

“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.”

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Author:Colin Meloy

“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.”

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Author:Matt Berninger

“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.”

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Author:Glenn Branca

“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.”

Whole Heard Rocks Band Myth Ridiculous Stomach Rock N Roll

Author:Craig Finn

“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.”

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Author:Craig Finn

“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.”

People Wells Character Together Can Do Rocks Great Things What You Love

Author:Jamie Lidell

“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.”

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Author:Matt Tong

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

Real Problem Seems Rocks Music Is Rock Music Real Problems Lineage

Author:Matt Tong

“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.”

Way Grows Growing Up Rocks Communicate Singers Mediums Rock N Roll Express Yourself Instrumentation

Author:Matt Tong

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

Way Real Enemy Too Much Rocks Nostalgia Rely Old Ways

Author:Matt Tong

“Most of the people who are given these Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them.”

People Kind Given Millions Records Rocks Fame Sells Halls Rock N Roll Trophies Hall Of Fame

Author:Tommy Ramone

“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.”

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Author:Paul Banks

“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.”

Way Seems Next Names Common Rocks Expression Like You One Way Rock Music Uncommon

Author:Dan Bejar

“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.”

Mean Kids Term Born Rocks Garden

Author:Dan Bejar

“That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and you can sort of predict it, but a lot is left up to chance and interaction.”

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Author:Greg Saunier

“On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through everything and make something that they believe in or make something that they love or speaks to them personally, that it can cut through the bullshit. But at the same time, the cliches of sincerity can kill that.”

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Author:Casey Spooner

“It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music.”

Rocks Connecting Indie Rock

Author:Prefuse 73

“The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that writers should provide an example of how to live. Virginia Woolf ended her life by putting a rock in her sweater one day and walking into a lake. She is not a model of how I want to live my life. On the other hand, the bravery of her syntax, of her sentences, written during her deepest depression, is a kind of example for me. But I do not want to become Virginia Woolf. That is not why I read her.”

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Author:Richard Rodriguez

“The average age in the U.S. is now thirty-three, whereas Mexico gets younger and younger, retreats deeper and deeper into adolescence. Mexico is fifteen. Mexico is wearing a Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt and wandering around Tijuana looking for a job, for a date, for something to put on her face to take care of the acne.”

“My boyfriend isn't a rock star. His values are rock solid. We met at a dinner and he made me laugh.”

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Author:Alek Wek

“There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.”

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Author:Joe Perry

“My father has been a rock for me every since.”

Has Beens Father Rocks

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“I'm going to try to do as many styles as I can. A salsa number, rock and roll, country.... I've talked to a million people about it. Obviously, I'd love Prince to do it. I'm sure he'll produce the whole album for me.”

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Author:Paul Reubens

“I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the song, I turn it up and start to sing.”

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Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello.”

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Author:Tod Machover

“Over my career, I'd say the last 25 years; we've gone from music and computer being for 10 people in the world to having personal computers, to now being able to do amazing things on your iPhone, or with Rock Band. So, right now there's enormous capability with technology in our devices that everybody has access to.”

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Author:Tod Machover

“I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.”

Self Black Rocks

Author:Katie Aselton

“A lot of young artists and musicians that we work with, you think they're gonna want to come in and buy the rock star-looking leather jacket - whatever it is that you think they're gonna want. They all want a suit. They want a tuxedo jacket, they want a suit. They don't want to look like their dad in it, but they want a suit.”

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Author:Paul Weller

“My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.”

Mother Energy Rocks Rock And Roll High Energy

Author:Patti Smith

“When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.”

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Author:Ian Astbury

“I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.”

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Author:Ian Astbury

“Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.”

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Author:Ian Astbury

“The term "rock" has, unfortunately, become appropriated by four-year-old girls and accountants. An accountant does something amazingly well on the stock exchange and his buddies high-five him: He's a rock star! A four-year-old girl learned to ride a bicycle: She's a rock star!”

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Author:Ian Astbury

“What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful?”

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Author:Ian Astbury

“A lot of festivals can be a jumble of electronic music and rock and roll, and everything's all mixed up - some things are more performance art or light shows or dance parties, and then you'll have a singer-songwriter stuck in the middle to make the changeovers easier.”

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Author:Jenny O.

“When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice.”

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Author:Gotye

“Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.”

Done Rocks Beats Guitar Rap Rock N Roll Buttons

Author:Ice T

“When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party.”

Party Rocks Rapper Rhyme

Author:Ice T

“I think there are so many activities going on, like mountaineering. You know, you would pay good money not to have to do that, and yet there are people racing out who want to spend their spare time clambering up rocks.”

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Author:John Cleese

“Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We the real rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1 rock star on the planet.”

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Author:Kanye West

“Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll?”

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Author:Joan Jett

“A girl playing rock and roll, it's saying I own my sexuality and I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. And I think people just find that threatening.”

People Thinking Girl Rocks Sexuality Rock And Roll Threatening

Author:Joan Jett

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