“That whole thing has been overstated by environmentalists. First of all, what is it, rocks and snow? C'mon, what is that, you want that? Go to Canada my friend. Believe me, rocks and snow are overrated. I've seen otters - they look better covered in oil.” WantFirstsBelieveLooksHas BeensWholeRocksMy FriendsOilSnowCanadaCoveredBelieve In MeOverratedEnvironmentalistOtters Author:Jon Stewart
“As a member of Fleetwood Mac, for two weeks I was still working at the restaurant because I'd given them notice. I didn't just want to walk in there and say, "'I'm going to be a famous rock star so I quit and I never liked your food anyway".” WantStillsTwoGivenStarsWalksWeekRocksMembersQuittingRestaurantsRock StarTwo WeeksMacsI QuitFleetwood Mac Author:Stevie Nicks
“The one thing you don't want to be is a sucky clean comic. I hate sucky clean comics! It's like Christian rock, bro. I'd rather listen to gospel and Christian rock. That's cheating!” WantChristianHateOne ThingRocksI HateCleanComicCheatingBros Author:Godfrey
“Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products of this world have never been widely seen because the artists are often exploring things that are not already coded in general consciousness. It's not that photographers don't want to be famous, it's just that very few of the views from the edges of culture make the mainstream. Ansel Adams was an exception.” WorldWantArtArtistCultureViewsConsciousnessRocksThis WorldProductsFinePhotographyProgramPhotographerUniversityEdgesExceptionMuseumsMainstreamExploringGalleryFine ArtsRock MusicSmall WorldArt Photography Author:Mark Klett
“I wanted to put reality in my photographs. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That's what was happening. And I was going to help make it happen. Boy, they did not want that in America.” WantHelpingRealityHappensWantedAmericaSexBoysRocksDrugHappeningsPhotographRock N RollMake It HappenSex Drugs Author:Bob Richardson
“When I see 16 year-olds waiting for me, I just want to spank them and give them guitars and tell them to start bands. It's a bummer that girls have to respond to rock artists sexually instead of, like, 'wow, me too!'.” WantGivingYearsArtistGirlWaitingRocksBandGuitarWowSexuallyThat GirlBummer Author:Courtney Love
“Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified. It is attitude. It is all the things that your parents told you not to do. It's the freedom to express yourself. It's being alive. It expresses the times. It's a magazine, a newspaper that tells the truth. If you listen to rap today, it's all about the truth. And that's what we all want. Just give me a little truth.” IfsWantGivingLittlesTodayParentAttitudeAliveRocksGive MeRapSexualityNewspapersMagazinesTelling The TruthRock N RollExpress Yourself Author:Steven Tyler
“I remember when I was first starting out in the late 50's, and everybody at that time said rock 'n roll was gonna die. I was 15 years old when I started, and I certainly didn't believe that was true. I thought anything that feels this good and makes me want to tap my foot like this can't be a passing fad like everybody says. Of course, they were wrong, and here we are in the 90's and it's alive and well, and getting programmed all over the country, and really all over the world. So it's been a great journey.” WorldWantFeelsYearsFirstsBelieveWellsSaidCountryRememberDiesCoursesAliveJourneyFeetRocksLateStartingPassingPassingsRock N RollRemember WhenFadsStarting OutGreat Journeys Author:Bobby Vee
“I want to be who I am now. I rock my gray hair because it is a blessing. I colored mine for many years, but I've gotten compliments from so many men and women about being brave enough to sport the gray. I even wear it on the cover of my record. I am comfortable in my skin and I want listeners to feel that as well.” MenWantFeelsYearsWellsEnoughSportsRecordsRocksMinesHairBlessingComfortableMen And WomenSkinsBraveWho I AmGrayComplimentListenersGray Hair Author:Regina Belle
“I think as a music listener you have your rock and roll dreams. I personally wouldn't want to apply that necessarily, mainly because I love music too much to mess it up.” ThinkingWantDreamToo MuchRocksMessListenersRock And RollMusic LoveI Love Music Author:Elijah Wood
“I don't want to read more into it than there is. I try not to overanalyze anymore, as it tends to make me self-centered. If there is a deeper message in what happened in the last year and a half, I'm not going to look under every rock for it. Just let God be God.” IfsWantTryingYearsLooksSelfLastsHalfHappenedRocksLetting GoMessagesDeeperLast YearSelf CenteredJust Let Go Author:Wayne Watson
“I get along very well with the cast of '30 Rock.' I guess I bring a certain quirkiness to the show as well. I'm just thankful they keep asking me. I didn't think I was going to be asked back so every time they say, 'We want you back,' I'm screaming. I'm jumping up and down and screaming.” ThinkingWantWellsShowsCertainRocksAskingDown AndCastsJumpingUp And DownWant You Back Author:Sherri Shepherd
“The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.” PeopleWantMatterRocksBand Author:Colin Greenwood
“In the long-run I think we lost some of our audience because of noise. I don't think people were ready for it, OK? And after we did it nothing really happened, but then 4-5 years later when there was a rap-rock emergence, we were already over it. We could have made Bring the Noise part 2, Bring the Noise part 3 - but like I said we're a METAL band, we didn't want to do that.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsLongMadeSaidRunningLostAudienceHappenedRocksReadyBandRapNoiseOver ItMetalsLong RunsEmergenceMetal Band Author:Charlie Benante
“I didn't want to live in LA again, although I'd go back every couple of months to do an interview, usually with a heavy rock or metal band. And as the decade went on, so much of that scene had become totally corrupted by too much coke and money and silicone.” WantToo MuchRocksMonthsCoupleSceneBandHeavyDecadesInterviewsMetalsCokeMetal Band Author:Sylvie Simmons
“Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.” WantWantedBlackRocksNeighborhoodRock N RollIntegratedRock N Roll Music Author:Gail Ann Dorsey
“I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions.” WantRocksInstructionRock N Roll Author:Mos Def
“With the first kid, you micromanage it, making sure there's no hair out of place when it goes off to school. But by the third kid, it's more like, "Oh, you want to wear a splatter-painted, Hard Rock Café T-shirt for seven days in a row and not brush your hair? Go for it. Be who you want to be."” WantFirstsHardKidsSchoolRocksHairThirdsSevenShirtsBrushesT ShirtSeven DaysHard Rock Author:Annie E. Clark
“If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I find inspiration from all these things in different songs of mine, shouldn't I be allowed to make any of this kind of music that I want? And it's the same for the comic books, why should I only make autobiographical stories? Or only political stories? Or only superhero stories? Or only comedy stories? I am a bit creatively desperate, when I sit with a pen and paper I am desperate for ANY idea that makes me excited, I don't care what kind of idea it is!” IfsWantShouldKindBookIdeasDifferentStoriesInspirationCarePoliticalSongBitsComedyRocksMinesPaperGuitarFolksEdgesDon't CareExcitedRapComicI Don't CareGentleDesperatePensPunkShould IComic BookSuperheroPsychedelicGangstersHardcoreFolk MusicPedalsIndie RockStraight EdgePunk MusicGangster Rap Author:Jeffrey Lewis
“I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.” PeopleWantNightSocialStarsRocksSkillsVery GoodBoringEvery NightRock StarSocial LifeSocial Skills Author:Daniel Johns
“My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.” WorldWantDifferentRunningKidsWantedFunStarsRocksMusicianPrioritiesMagazinesAround The WorldRock Star Author:Blake Judd
“Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.” WantImportantPlayRocksWestRock N RollCoastVeinsProgressionVogueWest Coast Author:Dee Dee Ramone
“In the rock 'n roll slang world, they're called rock doctors, or rock docs. They would come out to shows and like to hang backstage. You could get a prescription for anything you want from them. They just want to hang out and party. It's crazy because you can get a prescription to anything. It doesn't even matter what kind of doctor they are.” WorldWantKindMatterShowsPartyCrazyRocksDoctorsHanging OutRock N RollPrescriptionsSlang Author:Reginald Arvizu
“We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.” WantTryingShowsBeautifulEnjoyRocksLoud Author:David Pajo
“Licensing is how indie rock people make a living these days, so whatever about that. But I want good films and good placement for the songs because I want to be exclusive. I don't want to just sign it away because I don't want songs to lose meaning, but I'm also...I don't care [that] Wilco sold songs to Volkswagen. That's great. They probably drive Volkswagens.” PeopleWantCareFilmSongLosesRocksDon't CareThese DaysI Don't CareExclusiveGood FilmsPlacementOld SongLicensingIndie RockVolkswagens Author:Justin Vernon
“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.” WantShouldKindHandsCommunityWrittenRocksExampleWalkingOne DayModelsBraveryNotionSentencesLakesLiving My LifeVirginiaSampleSweatersSyntaxSociologicalWoolf Author:Richard Rodriguez
“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.” ThinkingWantLooksYoungArtistStarsRocksDadMusicianSuitsRock StarJacketsLeatherYoung ArtistsLeather JacketsTuxedos Author:Paul Weller
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantPayRocksActivityRacingSparesMountaineeringSpare TimeGood Money Author:John Cleese