“We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives.” TryingRealSeemsGuyOur LivesRocksErasRelateRealisticRock N RollSpandex Author:Eddie Vedder
“I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.” ThinkingKindLittlesIdeasWantedGuyBlackSawsWifeGroupsJourneyRocksHairRootsAgingMy WifeBlondeEarringsBlonde Hair Author:Fred Willard
“I was influenced by a lot of stand-up comedians... Eddie Murphy back when he was doing 'Raw.' I watched that so many times as a kid, I can probably still quote the entire thing to this day. Chris Rock. Dave Chappelle. George Carlin. A lot of the guys who were sort of edgy for their time.” StillsI CanKidsGuyRocksComedianThis DayBack WhenDaveEdgyMurphyStand Up Comedian Author:Ray William Johnson
“To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.” WorldGuySongKnownRocksBandVideoConcertsKoreaDance MusicFunny MusicRock SongFunny SongFunny Videos Author:PSY
“I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.” PlayKidsGuyWhiteRocksFrontsQuietBandEgoAmbitionGuitarSuitsRock N Roll Author:George Harrison
“My mother was the one who totally got behind me as far as, do things and ask questions later. My father would say, "I don't care how dirty you are up there, just be funny." Because they knew me offstage. They knew I was a good guy. They knew my whole plan of becoming the most exciting comedian, visually, ever. A real rock-and-roll stand-up comic.” RealWholeCareMotherGuyAsksFatherBehindsPlansRocksBecomingExcitingDon't CareComicComedianI Don't CareDirtyRock And RollGood Guy Author:Andrew Dice Clay
“The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray?” LooksDoeUseRunningGuySportsGoneRichRocksMediaFiguresHeroPoliticianLateRiversPopsSingersGrayVillainSoupMurdererAccustomedBad GuysSpicesGood GuyHumdrumOddballsCelebsPlankton Book:Talking woman Source: Talking woman
“Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.” WorldCharacterBeautifulGuyWhiteRocksUglySurfaceBeautiful WomenRock MusicWhite Guys Author:Sherman Alexie
“I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, Git r done!” PeopleThinkingFirstsDonePlayGuyStarsRocksWalkingBasketballParksRock StarCablesYellingLarryHarlem Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“Pro wrestling was there, and I was good at it, thank God. I started getting a lot of offers, but unfortunately, at WWE I was under a tight leash. I think it had a lot to do with The Rock making the transition, and me possibly being the next guy - you know, the company didnt want to lose another top performer.” ThinkingKnowsWantGuyNextLosesCompanyRocksOffersTransitionPerformersWrestlingThank GodWweLeashesPro WrestlingTop Performers Author:Kurt Angle
“Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.” WantGuyStarsRocksJokesComedianThrownFishingTake MeRock StarUnderwear Author:Les Claypool
“I noticed that difference early on, like if you were successful in rock 'n' roll, that was a really bad thing, you almost had to hide it. You had these guys selling 200 million records with dirty T-shirts on. I was like, 'Come on, man. Come on. We know you're successful.' Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenEnoughBigsGuyDifferencesWealthMillionsSuccessfulRecordsRocksLike YouHip HopSellingHipsDirtyShirtsHopsBad ThingsRock N RollT Shirt Author:Jay-Z
“Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.” TryingYearsStillsGuyStarsRocksVansRock StarDaveWigsVan Halen Author:Sammy Hagar
“I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.” MenPlayWholeGuyRocksWhole LifeRock Music Author:Sammy Hagar
“I am not a rock producer. I don't see that. I once turned down Guns N' Roses. I don't like shouting. I'm a melody guy. I love great melody.” GuyRocksGunRoseProducersMelodyShoutingTurned DownGuns N Roses Author:Steve Lillywhite
“A lot of stand-up specials for cable are meant to glorify the comedian. They put you in a really beautiful theater, and sometimes they even blow a little smoke in there to make it misty and sweet. They make the guy look like he's a big rock star. But comedy's not really glamorous. It doesn't enhance comedy for it to look good.” LooksLittlesSometimesBigsBeautifulGuyStarsComedyRocksSweetTheaterBlowSmokeComedianRock StarCablesGlamorousGlorifyReally BeautifulMisty Author:Louis C. K.
“I don't know a lot of guys who started out as a hard rock and roller with a white stripe in their hair. Suddenly I do a TV movie and I wake up the next day and I'm a teen idol, like I'd laid on a beach in California all my life waiting for that to happen.” KnowsHardHappensGuyNextWaitingWhiteRocksTvsHairWake UpBeachCaliforniaIdolsNext DayStripesHard RockWhite Stripes Author:Rex Smith
“How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?” ThinkingKnowsWantGuyStarsRocksRock Star Author:Chris Robinson
“As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because you're trying to create an identity; you look to others to model.” WayTryingLooksGuyInfluenceRocksIdentityBandModelsFemaleSingersRock BandsFemale Singers Author:Joan Cusack
“I'm a rock 'n' roll guy, really. I'm a big fan of Elvis. I got "Heartbreak Hotel" tattooed on my chest.” BigsGuyFansRocksHotelChestsRock N RollTattooed Author:Ed Westwick
“The most inspiring drummer for me is Stewart Copeland from The Police. The Police are the first band I can remember really liking, and Copeland is a guy who was playing in sort of a rock band, or a rock-pop band, but he didn't want to do the traditional kind of rock drumbeat. He was doing all these kind of reggae rhythms, and the reggae style is almost an exact opposite of the rock mold of drumming.” WantFirstsKindI CanRememberGuyRocksStyleBandOppositesPolicePopsTraditionalRhythmMoldDrummerReggaeRock BandsDrummingMost InspiringPop Bands Author:Panda Bear
“Chris Rock went from a guy whose name you knew from SNL to a legendary comedian by working his ass off.” GuyNamesRocksAssComedianLegendarySnl Author:Ted Alexandro
“A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!” UsedGuyReadingFiveFourRocksBandSittingUsed To BeDrummerManualsSitting AroundRock Bands Author:Bill Bruford
“You can do some serious subway flirting before you realize the guy is homeless.” GuyCan DoRealizingRocksSeriousHomelessFlirtingSubway Author:LIZ
“I don't think I'd rock a moustache. I don't mind growing a beard. I think it's just a guy thing. We like to nurture a beard, see what we can grow and sort of test our own patience with how long we can let it grow out. However, I'm not really as keen on moustaches as I am on beards.” ThinkingMindLongGuyGrowsGrowingRocksTestsNurtureBeardMoustache Author:James Magnussen
“Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.” IfsKnowsMindBigsGuyRocksJazzMessRock And RollOrchestraConductorPlaying Jazz Author:Goran Ivanisevic
“I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards. A lot of guys go into rock and then get sick of it and then go into something else. I came the other way, so I've always just had a lot more stuff lying around.” WayWritingYearsKindLyingGuyStuffNumbersRocksSickBackgroundsPianoBackwardsVocalPlaying PianoInstrumental MusicVocal Music Author:Tom Verlaine
“I stop and think what they call "punk rock" today...give me a break! Let me know when they can walk in the vapor trail of Little Richard, which was punk. You've got a gay black guy with a pompadour singing about tutti frutti with your white girl. Fuck you.” ThinkingKnowsGivingLittlesTodayGuyGirlBlackWhiteWalksBreakRocksGaySingingLet MeGive MePunkTrailsPunk RockVaporBlack GuysWhite Girl Author:Ted Nugent
“Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team.” IfsGuyTeamRocksFootballProudDrugBandMessUniformsFootball TeamRock Bands Author:Gene Simmons
“I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.” GuyHeardRocksPicksRock And RollAdapted Author:Ted Nugent
“When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.” FirstsBigsGuyAudienceRecordsRocks80sBig Guys Author:Bruce Springsteen
“An Israeli man's life was saved when he was given a Palestinian man's heart in a heart transplant operation. The guy is doing fine, but the bad news is, he can't stop throwing rocks at himself.” MenHeartGuyGivenRocksFineNewsSavedOperationsThrowingPalestinianIsraeliBad NewsTransplantsHeart TransplantThrowing Rocks Author:Jay Leno
“It's tough to know who's better in cliff diving. Like, you see a guy diving off a cliff and you go, Oh, man, a guy diving off a cliff! And then another guy'd dive- Oh, there's another guy diving off a cliff there. But you can't tell who's better, y'know? Like, uh- if you survive at all, hey, you're a great- you're a great cliff diver there. There's only two classifications in cliffdiving. There's, uh- 'Grand Champion' and then, uh- 'Stuff On a Rock.' Very hard to make a comeback in that sport, I'll tell you that.” IfsKnowsMenTwoHardGuyStuffSportsRocksLike YouToughHeyChampionCliffsComebackOther GuysDivingClassificationHey You Author:Norm MacDonald
“I consider myself a modern-day dad, where I still got rock'n'roll in me, but yet I take being a parent and relationships very seriously in life. I'm tired of the image of the father as a fat, beer-chugging, stupid guy. That image has to change. I'm changing it, baby, one city at a time.” StillsGuyFatherParentCitiesModernRocksStupidBabyDadTiredFatsBeerRock N RollI'm TiredBeing A ParentModern DayStupid Guy Author:Jim Breuer
“Its cool when I meet young guys from other bands who say how much an impact Aerosmith has had on them and how much they like me.I'll give 'em that 'C'mon you don't mean that' routine, but in my heart I know where they're coming from. If I had grown up in the '70's and was into rock n' roll, I know the kind of impact Aerosmith would have had on me. I know the kind of impact that Elvis and Jagger had on me, and while I'm not comparing myself to those guys, I can relate.” IfsKnowsGivingHeartKindMeanI CanYoungGuyRocksMy HeartBandImpactLike MeRelateCompareEmsRoutineRock N RollJaggerYoung GuysAerosmith Author:Steven Tyler
“Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.” IfsGuyRocksBandSpendingVideoLike MeNo PointRock Bands Author:Sebastian Bach
“I learned from the guys before me - Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the stage.” GuyNamesRocksStageBillsHanging OutMurphy Author:Kevin Hart
“I have to say that Dave's Grohl amazing too. You see all these interviews with him and he seems like the coolest and nicest guy on camera, but he really is when he's off too! I was fortunate enough to know him before he was a big rock star when I put out his very first band's album.” KnowsFirstsEnoughBigsSeemsGuyStarsRocksBandCamerasAlbumsFortunateInterviewsRock StarDave Author:Reed Mullin
“Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter of fact, before Mike, Woody and I really got going on touring on the old Animosity stuff, Karl & I did about a dozen shows performing the Blind album from start to finish. He's still a good friend of mine and is now in a band called Lead Foot that's more Rock and Roll but they're fantastic, kind of Thin Lizzy or MC5 sounding.” KindStillsMatterFactsShowsGuyStuffRecordsFeetRocksMinesBandBlindAlbumsSellingFantasticPerformingDozenGood FriendRock And RollMikeTouringMatter Of FactWoodyAnimositySecond BestGreat GuyLizzy Author:Reed Mullin
“I tend to gravitate towards the great rock-and-roll front men, the guys that are very "bare bones." I like Bono, I like Chris Martin(Coldplay) and I like the running around. I think they are amazing at it, but I think that there is something great about a guy that can captivate a room, and very little movement and running everywhere.” ThinkingMenLittlesRunningGuyRoomsRocksFrontsMovementBonesRock And Roll Author:Matthew Mayfield
“In indie rock, there's the phenomenon of: "Oh, this guy seems totally normal, but he's actually crazy." There's more of that out there than you'd think.” ThinkingSeemsGuyCrazyRocksNormalPhenomenonThis GuyIndie Rock Author:Tom Scharpling
“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.” PlayGuyThreeRocksHusbandPicksBottomStudiosScreensSupposed To BeMy HusbandClosetsTestingBridesCokeBrady Author:Maureen McCormick
“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.” IfsCountryUsedGuyPlayerFansRocksGuitarWizardsGuitar Player Author:Joe Perry
“I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.” KnowsKindBigsGuyRocksJazzRock And Roll Author:Robert Barry
“Every single night, there seemed to be the same seven or eight guys - Harry Nilsson, myself, Mickey Dolenz, Bernie Taupin, Keith Moon when he was in town. It was actually sort of a social club - drinking club - for rock stars that drank - seriously drank.” NightGuySocialStarsRocksMoonTownsDrinkingSevenClubsEightRock StarDrankMickeyKeith Author:Alice Cooper