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“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.”

Thinking Want Years Has Beens Plans Rocks Albums Forty Jail Rock N Roll Incomplete

Author:Gary Glitter

“I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to throw rocks at me, they're going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished.”

Ifs Thinking Rocks Very Good Finished

Author:George Lucas

“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

“Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.”

Thinking Hard Character Sides Rocks Band Stones Appeals Feminine Rolling Masculine Rolling Stones Rock Bands

Author:Mick Jagger

“I think it's important that all 50 years of rock 'n' roll live in the same place, because it's all connected.”

Thinking Years Important Rocks Connected Rock N Roll

Author:Steven Van Zandt

“What matters is performances, regardless of what the name is, whether it's The Rock - which is my nickname and people call me that all the time - it's no big deal. So, whether it's The Rock or Dwayne Johnson, in terms of being recognised I just think that the goal is to be recognised as a good actor. I don't put much thought or weight into the name, or the name change, or what it is, or what does it mean? It's just a nickname.”

People Thinking Mean Doe Matter Bigs Actors Names Goal Term Deals Rocks Performances Weight Call Me What Matters Big Deal Johnson Good Actors Nicknames Name Changes

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“I think that the board is a lot more intuitive than people assume. You get on it and all you have to do is put one foot on the tail and one foot on the nose and rock it up and down and that will get you into the tricks or wheelies or manuals. It's not about the balance so much as it is about the timing.”

People Thinking Feet Rocks Balance Down And Assuming Tricks Noses Boards Timing Tails Intuitive Up And Down Manuals

Author:Tony Hawk

“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 was sorry to see the News of the World go down, I think it was a great campaigning newspaper. Who can forget the News of the World's high profile campaign against child sex offenders which led to News of the World readers burning down the home of a paediatrician, throwing rocks at a pedalo, stamping on a centipede.”

“Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether singing a Siren song that's designed to crash the unsuspecting against the jagged rocks of pedantry.”

Thinking Sometimes Song Situation Rocks Fit Singing Definitions Irony Hanging Out Crash Sirens Pedantry Unsuspecting Siren Song

Author:Mike Duncan

“Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.”

Thinking Mean Courses Rocks Punk Rebellious Punk Rock

Author:Dexter Holland

“Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think”

Thinking Rocks

Book:The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

“Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth.”

Thinking Whole Wanted Causes Mankind Rocks Importance Foundation Convinced Platforms Wishful Thinking Proletariat Rhetorical Scientific Truth Future Of Mankind

Author:Ernest Mandel

“We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are neither god nor demon; who are you, then, to make slaves? Orou! You understand the language of these men, tell us all, as you have told me, what they have written on this sheet of metal: This country is ours. This country yours? And why? Because you have walked thereon? If a Tahitian landed one day on your shores, and scratched on one of your rocks or on the bark of your trees: This country belongs to the people of Tahiti - what would you think?”

People Ifs Thinking Men Country Language Written Tree Atheism Rocks One Day Slavery Slave Deeds Positive Atheism Our Country Titles Demon Shore Our Future Metals Sheets Bark Tahiti

Author:Denis Diderot

“I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.”

Thinking Country Modern Rocks Band Pops Combination Chicago Rock N Roll Swings Chicago Blues

Author:Bob Dylan

“Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.”

Thinking Ideas Rocks Creation Flower No Idea Thoughtful Splits

Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

“[Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [...] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music.”

People Thinking Ends Country Rocks Music Is Finals Appeals Purity Destination Punk Precision Punk Rock Rockers Final Destination Rockabilly

Author:John C. Reilly

“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

“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.”

People Thinking Reason Young Parent Forget Rocks Source Politician Despair Music Is Reflection Preacher Rock Music Reason To Live

Book:Wicked Game

Source: Wicked Game

“I hate to get on the racial thing because that's something I've always been totally against. But the problem with the media is that they think that the word rock means white and the word rap means black.”

Thinking Mean Problem Hate Black White Rocks Media I Hate Rap

Author:Ice T

“I think [rock'n'roll] essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good - it's against everything that is fixed, all the social structures that you can't go past.”

Thinking Made Past Social Common Rocks Essence Structure Made It Fixed Rock N Roll Monotheism Social Structure

Author:Ezra Furman

“I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything.”

Thinking I Can Rocks Rock N Roll Say Anything Playgrounds

Author:Ezra Furman

“I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it.”

Thinking Should Able Spiritual Form Artist Wonderful Rocks Style Pops Great Art Great Artist Artistry

Author:Michael Jackson

“The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.”

Thinking Men Running Lying Rocks Structure Soil Thoughtful Spheres Globes Crystals

Book:The method of nature: An oration, delivered before the Society of the Adelphi, in Waterville College, in Maine, August 11, 1841

Source: The method of nature: An oration, delivered before the Society of the Adelphi, in Waterville College, in Maine, August 11, 1841

“I actually don't see that strong of a connection between my background as a rock 'n roller and my early films. In a way I think your musical identity in film work is determined by the jobs that come your way.”

Thinking Way Jobs Film Strong Rocks Identity Connections Musical Determined Backgrounds

Author:Cliff Martinez

“I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.”

Thinking Chance Rocks Fame Halls Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame

Author:Al Yankovic

“I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do. The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock'n'roll for a second that I'm on holiday.”

Thinking Want Rocks Truth Is Holiday Rock N Roll Uncertain

Author:Joe Strummer

“I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.”

Thinking Knows Practice Economy Rocks Century Burning Alternatives 17th Century

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“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

“To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.”

Thinking Rocks Program Boxes Establishment Punk Punk Rock

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I don't think we ever sat down in the early days and said "hey lets be a band that wears make up". I think it was just natural for us. We grew up loving stuff like Alice Cooper, Kiss, The Misfits, and the more theatrical stuff. I always loved rock stars. I loved David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and these people that were larger than life and iconic. I think that is what we always wanted to do.”

People Thinking Said Wanted Stars Stuff Natural Rocks Grew Band Kissing Grew Up Hey Sat Rock Star Theatrical Iconic Mercury Misfits Bowie Larger Than Life

Author:Andy Biersack

“Dancing makes people feel good whether they're doing it or watching it. It's something I think everybody can relate to whether it's just a simple two-step or a B-boy watching another B-boy go crazy in a circle. It makes you smile and without you even knowing it and it makes you rock to the beat as well.”

People Thinking Feels Wells Two Simple Steps Boys Knowing Crazy Rocks Beats Dancing Circles Feel Good Relate Without You Make You Smile

Author:Stephen Boss

“A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten what you think is. You should be holding onto that tree or rock screaming. Or laughing. Not at absurdity, either: absurdism is just a bourgeois and reactionary nostalgia for good, stable meaning.”

Thinking Way Should Made Different Fall Imagination Novel Laughing Tree Rocks Horror Nostalgia Stable Absurdity Falling Apart Holding On Bourgeois Reactionaries

Author:Tony Burgess

“Every time you read something about Rolling Stones it always mentions their age and how long can they go on? I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.”

People Thinking Long Age Certain Rocks Goes On Stones Genre Rebellion Rolling Rock And Roll Teenage Rolling Stones Genres Of Music Teenage Rebellion

Author:Kate Pierson

“From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up rock n' roll characters in a band who each had their own style and personalities. I think by accident I was already becoming a fashion designer.”

Thinking Made Character Remember Artist Rocks Fashion Style Painting Personality Becoming Band Draws Accidents Drawing Designer Rock N Roll Fashion Designer

Author:Ashley Purdy

“Wearing shorts is a huge perk. I think it's probably one of the reasons people become mailmen. You also get to drive in that vehicle that should be illegal in the United States, where the steering wheel is on the other side. They have no rules! They are the punk rock of government jobs.”

People Thinking Should States Reason Government Jobs Sides United United States Rocks Huge Wheels Illegal Vehicle Punk Punk Rock Shorts Perks Steering Mailman Government Jobs

Author:Jimmy Fallon

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

Thinking Rocks Function Rock Music

Author:Charlton Heston

“I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows World Reading Fiction Novel Rocks Information Our World

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“We think in our society today that the way people change is that they have to have a deep desire to change or that the way they change is they have to hit rock bottom. But neither of those things is true.”

People Thinking Way Today Desire Rocks Bottom Our Society Society Today Deep Desire Desire To Change

Author:Andy Andrews

“Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing.”

Thinking Littles Country Artist Bits Rocks Little Bit Roots Good Things Staying Throwing Stay True Flair Music Artist

Author:Jason Aldean

“I think my music is definitely country but it's got a little bit of that rock flair about it. I always try to find the things that everyday people deal with in their everyday lives and situations in the songs that I sing.”

People Thinking Trying Littles Country Song Bits Deals Situation Rocks Little Bit Music Is Everyday Everyday Life Flair

Author:Jason Aldean

“You come to a country music show and it's like a rock show, it's so different, it's just not what people think it is, it's really cool and I think that if people just give it a chance they'd see that it's really cool and I think that's what people are finally starting to see.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Different Country Shows Chance Rocks Starting Really Cool Give It A Chance

Author:Jason Aldean

“Traveling all over the country and all over the world, I think you've got a lot of pop acts and a lot of rock acts that are making a point of traveling to different places and making people aware of their music and their shows and the whole deal and I think country music has always sort of stayed, for the most part, in the states.”

People Thinking World Different Country States Whole Shows Deals Rocks Pops Different Place

Author:Jason Aldean

“If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Song Sound Rocks Fine Musician Rock And Roll

Author:Creed Bratton

“I THINK ITS COOL THAT OTHER CROWDS LIKE WHAT I DO. HOWEVER IVE ALWAYS HAD A GOOD MIX OF PEOPLE AT MY SHOWS. I STARTED DOING THINGS ON RADIO ON ROCK MARKETS AND ALTERNATIVE MARKETS. IVE ALWAYS BEEN A COUNTRY TYPE ACT HOWEVER I STARTED WITH THE ROCK MARKET. IM VERY INTERCHANGEABLE.”

People Thinking Country Shows Rocks Type Radio Crowds Alternatives

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't grow up with comics, I grew up with rock 'n' roll. And when I saw a lot of comics, no matter how good they might have been material-wise, I would get a little bored with them after 10 minutes, only because I feel comedians don't really know performance.”

“I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenomenon likes trees or rocks, I just wanted to be one of the people who did that. So I was copying all kinds of cartoons that I was reading, comic books, and eventually learned how to draw cartoon books step-by-step and just, I don't know, I'm not an especially quick learner, but I sure was a dedicated one.”

“I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians. I think it's a craft. I think it's been really neglected - sadly. I think about the days of the great legendary rock critics. Who's going to become that when magazines and newspapers don't pay anyone properly or don't seem to respect the history or research that is required?”

Thinking Seems Pay Rocks Musician Research Critics Inspired Newspapers Magazines Crafts Journalist Exception Neglected Legendary

Author:Emily Haines

“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

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