“I think we should have a day off for Father's Day. Dads work very hard. And to be fair, a day off for Mums too, as they work hard. And more bank holidays. They rock.” ThinkingShouldHardFatherRocksHard WorkDadFairsShould HaveHolidayMumDays Off Author:Peter Andre
“I think I'm someone who is really prone to melancholy, and the super heavy, thick shows kind of spiral me out into not being able to be as happy a person as I think I deserve to be, so I tend to watch things like 30 Rock and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Anything Tina Fey's involved in. And Parks and Rec. I love comedies!” ThinkingKindPersonsShowsAbleWatchesComedyRocksInvolvedDeserveHeavyParksMelancholyThickSpiralsUnbreakableFeySchmidtParks And Rec Author:Sara Bareilles
“It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.” PeopleIfsThinkingStarsTermRocksCall MeRock StarChameleon Author:Meat Loaf
“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
“I listen to tons of hard rock and metal, like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, etc., but I also listen to Beethoven and Mozart, to Discharge and the Bad Brains, and to Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington. So I think there's merit to both the melodic punk and to the hardcore stuff too.” ThinkingHardStuffBrainRocksMeritEtcIronMetalsPunkCharlieDukesMaidensHardcoreDischargeHard RockIron Maiden Author:Dave Smalley
“I think inside every rock journalist, there's somebody who wishes they had the courage to live the life that they're not, and that they're writing about. But at the same time, inside every songwriter, I guess there's a wish for happiness.” ThinkingWritingWishRocksJournalistLive LifeSongwriters Author:Glen Hansard
“It's really hard to make records and concentrate and have a free mind, because I have this whole other life. If you don't have kids it's a whole other thing. I think you can be fifty and still have a rock and roll lifestyle; you can still perpetuate that.” IfsThinkingMindStillsHardWholeKidsRecordsRocksLifestyleFiftyRock And Roll Author:Pat Benatar
“Many of the women who I've taught to climb have a better sense of balance than the men. I think it has to do with being a little more sensitive to it rather than relying on strenght. It's also a reflection of a passive attitude - balancing your way up the rock, rather than attacking it.” ThinkingMenWayLittlesAttitudeRocksTaughtHe ManBalanceReflectionSensitiveClimbsPassiveAttackingStrenght Author:Lynn Hill
“It doesn't necessarily matter if I'm onstage or not. I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type of music performance, achieves a kind of transcendence that I associate with spirituality. It's the closest thing to what I think people expect church to be like. Or maybe just what I've always thought church should be. You lose yourself, and at the same time come to the realization or understanding that you're part of something bigger than yourself.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldKindMatterSpiritualityUnderstandingLosesChurchAchieveRocksTypePerformancesBiggerRealizationConcertsBe YouClosestAssociatesTranscendenceLosing YourselfRock ConcertsSomething Bigger Than Yourself Author:Jeff Tweedy
“I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's always been writing for me. I evolved with my band in rock 'n' roll through poetry, not through music.” PeopleThinkingWritingI CanPlayRocksBandMusicianTrainingMusicalCall MePerformersRock N Roll Author:Patti Smith
“The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.” ThinkingFirstsRocksTalentStyleFameManagementHallsRock And RollSupportiveHall Of FameRock And Roll Hall Of Fame Author:Ian Anderson
“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.” ThinkingWayHas BeensHardKidsFormCulturePowerfulFansLandRocksMessagesMusic IsFunctionRock N RollRock MusicSubversivePopulistElitistApatheticHard RockSohoRock N Roll Music Author:Tom Morello
“Ninety-nine percent of girls want to be models because they believe it will mean that they are the most beautiful women in the world. They think that they will wear expensive clothes, makes loads of money, travel a lot and have a rock star for a boyfriend. This never interested me. I didn't want anyone to scream out my name. I wanted to make art, to create an image with a photographer. And yes, I wanted to get out of Clinton, Mississippi - a small town that was so closed-minded you can't even imagine.” ThinkingWorldWantBelieveMeanArtWantedBeautifulGirlNamesStarsImagineRocksClothesModelsPercentTownsClintonPhotographerNineExpensiveScreamLoadSmall TownNinetyBeautiful WomenRock StarMississippiNinety NineClosed MindedMost Beautiful Woman In The WorldExpensive Clothes Author:Crystal Renn
“I think this is the beginning of a really cool period in music because what we've been living through has been mostly super-testosterone rock, and there's nothing wrong with testosterone but it is damn boring.” ThinkingHas BeensRocksPeriodsMusic IsBoringDamnReally CoolTestosterone Author:Sam Endicott
“Did you really think I wouldn't recognize my college futon, with its trademark absence of sex stains?” ThinkingSexRocksCollegeAbsenceStainsLemonsTrademarksFutons Author:LIZ
“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.” ThinkingWorldWantRocksIndustryRock MusicNashvilleDo Whatever You Want Author:Lucinda Williams
“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
“I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.” ThinkingKidsDecisionRocksMessagesAbsolutesSakeRebellionPunkQuestioningPunk RockMaking Decisions Author:Mark Hoppus
“People used to say, "Clapton is God." That was a phrase that people attributed to him, and he was a guitar hero back in his day. He chose a different path. And you can read about it, but he was really at the top of his game back then. I think he's one of the greatest rock players who've ever lived. His timing and everything was just so on.” PeopleThinkingDifferentUsedGamesPathPlayerRocksHeroGuitarPhrasesTimingDifferent PathsGuitar Hero Author:Michael Angelo Batio
“There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed up in mother's castoffs and glamour is a certain sophistication, a certain other-worldliness, a certain unattainableness, which I think we certainly calculate. We believe that a band should be slightly larger than life - you should be transported to an alternate reality. I'm giving you some really good answers here, I'm very proud of myself.” ThinkingGivingShouldBelieveRealityMotherCertainDifferencesAnswersRocksFootballProudBandBunchGlamourDressed UpLadSophisticationLarger Than LifeWorldlinessGlamProud Of MyselfAlternate RealitiesLagerGlam Rock Author:Brian Molko
“Even trees are creative, rocks are creative. You are man, the very culmination of this existence. You are at the top, you are conscious. Never think with wrong beliefs, and never be attached to wrong beliefs, that you are uncreative.” ThinkingMenBeliefExistenceCreativeTreeRocksConsciousCulmination Author:Rajneesh
“I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.” ThinkingWayGrowsRocksLet MeRock And RollLet Me Down Author:Neil Young
“The whole reputation of being a rock guitar player, I could really care less about it. Still, when I hear new groups today I do occasionally hear something where I think... ahh, I've heard that lick before.” ThinkingStillsWholeCareTodayPlayerHeardGroupsRocksGuitarReputationGuitar Player Author:Tom Verlaine
“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
“The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.” PeopleThinkingGenerationsRocksSceneRock N RollClassical MusicUnfamiliarCatharsisOlder Generation Author:Lola Kirke
“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
“There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.” ThinkingHas BeensRocksDegreesBuiltBoardsSexismChemistryConstructionVersusFlexibleBeing A Woman Author:Amanda Palmer
“I was teaching drum lessons at a few high schools - everything from marching to classical to rock and jazz. I found that really rewarding, having to explain my thought process, having to think about stuff that I take for granted or as second nature.” ThinkingSchoolFoundStuffProcessTeachingRocksLessonsHigh SchoolJazzGrantedMy ThoughtsThought Process Author:Glenn Kotche
“I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.” ThinkingSongCuttingRocksJokesMy FriendsTeethTeenagerAmusingGenesisAccordionsPolkaRock SongMedley Author:Al Yankovic
“[E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper.” ThinkingLittlesRocksBottomEntertainmentDeeperRatsMoguls Author:Ellen Goodman
“On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, gather themselves together into chunks of rock-sized matter of such staggering complexity that they are capable of running, jumping, swimming, flying, seeing, hearing, capturing and eating other such animated chunks of complexity; capable in some cases of thinking and feeling, and falling in love with yet other chunks of complex matter.” ThinkingMatterFeelingsRunningEarthTogetherFallUniverseCasesSeeingRocksPlanetsEatingCapableComplexesFalling In LoveComplicatedHearingFlyingComplexitySwimmingJumpingAnimatedMoleculesPlanet EarthChunksStaggering Author:Richard Dawkins
“One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist must fight, the fighter must find peace. If you flow as a river, burn as a fire. If you burn as a furnace, flow as a river. If you fly as a bird, sit firm as a rock. If you sit firmly, then fly as a bird. Be a fire that flows. A rock that flies. Love with fear and fear with love. For we are not fire, not water, not air, not rocks, not thoughts, not deeds, not fear, not love. We are G-dly beings.” IfsThinkingFightingWaterFireAirRocksBirdFlowRiversDeedsFighterFirmThinkerFinding PeaceFear NotDoersPacifistFurnaces Author:Menachem Mendel Schneerson
“I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.” PeopleThinkingFeelsWholeStoriesShowsFeelingsDreamPastFallWaitingRocksLonelinessStructureWinterBonesAwfulHillsLandscapeTimelessness Author:Andrew Wyeth
“As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18.99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or so. Pay your producer out of that. Then your manager. Then split it five ways among your band mates. Now don't act surprised when you see the drummer of a platinum-selling Canadian rock band behind the drive- thru window at Tim Hortons” ThinkingWayArtistPayBehindsRichFiveRocksBandWindowSellingProducersManagersMatesSplitsDrummerCdsRock BandsPlatinumDrive Thru Author:Steven Page
“All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?” ThinkingKidsGrowing UpGrowingRocksDigitalRock N RollDigital Music Author:Ty Segall
“I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.” ThinkingLooksStarsRocksDecidedMirrorsPairsRock StarBricklayers Author:Billy Joel
“I've got a good life, and I don't think anything can rock that anymore.” ThinkingRocksGood Life Author:Liza Minnelli
“I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.” ThinkingTryingWellsTwoRocksElementsMusic IsConservativeBridgesOperaRock And RollRock And Roll Music Author:Klaus Nomi
“Rock 'n' roll and playing live is very addictive. But you have to really be careful, because you don't want to do it all the time. It's like when you are young and you think if you are not having sex you're wasting your time. But as you get older you realise everything has its place. It's the same thing with performing.... Performing is a great thing to do but you don't want to have to be doing it every night.” IfsThinkingWantYoungNightSexRocksCarefulGreat ThingsPerformingThings To DoRealisingBe CarefulRock N RollEvery NightHaving SexWasting Your Time Author:Mick Jagger
“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.” PeopleThinkingAgePastRememberRocksStuckExperimentsRootedRock MusicOlder PeopleRetroStuck In The Past Author:Jeff Tweedy
“Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingFirstsWellsMightJesusNamesChristianityRocksMusic IsPossessionRock N RollRock And RollPublishersChuckBerries Author:John Lennon
“I really like LIMP BIZKIT. I mean, I've said it for years - I don't know if anyone actually hears it - but I think LIMP BIZKIT are an awesome band. In terms of the rap-rock bands, or ANY bands out there, I think they really are truly among the best.” IfsThinkingKnowsYearsMeanSaidTermRocksBandRapRock BandsLimp Bizkit Author:Lars Ulrich
“I want to make these films that I think other people would be scared to do. I don't think anyone can go off and make a rock opera. I think it's a very specific niche.” PeopleThinkingWantWould BeFilmRocksScaredOperaNiche Author:Darren Lynn Bousman
“If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to see people up there that have just started playing. That's something that had gotten lost. I think that's why there are so many great girl punk rock bands now. It's like you have to make up your own rules because the old rules don't apply. You just have to start with what you have.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsGirlLostRocksLike YouBandExceptionPunkNormPunk RockRock Bands Author:Tobi Vail
“Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.” ThinkingWellsRocksBandStonesSouthernMetalsPunkPunk RockRock BandsZeppelinsWell RoundedMetal Band Author:Al Jourgensen
“Bill Klinton was the ultimate rock star as president. I don't think as a result of his presidency we will ever have a rock star as president again. In the same way that we will never get involved in another Vietnam.” ThinkingWayStarsPresidentResultsRocksInvolvedUltimateBillsVietnamPresidencyGet InvolvedRock Star Author:Joe Eszterhas
“We're on this rock and we can choose to treat each other well or we can choose to kill each other and be uncivilized. I don't know. It's very tragic. It's a very tragic thing to think about.” ThinkingKnowsWellsRocksTreatsTragicUncivilized Author:Rachel Weisz
“I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big kind of rock-and-roll road trip comedy that has heart and that has hopefully you feel bad for Russell and you feel bad for Aldeus and also I wanted to surprise people with some of the turns in the movie and I think when I watched it with audiences they certainly...the reactions made me think that we did and so all that I'm just very excited about it.” PeopleThinkingFeelsHeartKindMeanMadeBigsWantedTurnsGoalAudienceComedyRocksMaterialsSurpriseExcitedReactionsHopefullyExtrasRock And RollHaving HopeRoad Trip Author:Nicholas Stoller
“I was scared to death because for the comics of my generation, HBO specials are like the pinnacle. I'm thinking of all these unbelievable comedians I've seen on HBO: Chris Rock, George Carlin, Damon Wayans, Richard Pryor and Billy Crystal. I started having a panic attack seeing my name in that list of people. It was pretty overwhelming.” PeopleThinkingNamesSeeingGenerationsRocksScaredListsComedianOverwhelmingPanicUnbelievableCrystalsMy GenerationPinnacleHboPanic AttacksDamon Author:Bill Burr
“When you think of diversity, George Duke fits that bill better than a lot of people. He's played a lot of straight-ahead jazz with people like Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley; he's played a lot of fusion with his own groups, with Stanley Clarke; and, you know, he did the rock thing with Frank Zappa. He's written all kinds of big arrangements for people like Burt Bacharach. So, he's covered the board. He's still a great pianist.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindStillsBigsWrittenGroupsRocksFitDiversityBillsJazzAll KindsBoardsCoveredFrankArrangementsDukesPianistWilsonFusionNancyStanleyZappaCannonballs Author:Christian McBride