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- A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.
- Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.
- The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat…
- Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.
- We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was…
- We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority…
- You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our…
- I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever.…
- Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much…
- The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight…
- I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.
- Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.
- I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize…
- Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
- Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean…
- Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
- Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.
- I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should.…
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- Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. — Neil Armstrong
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- America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does. — Sebastian Bach
- Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending… — Sebastian Bach
- I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music. — Kevin Bacon
- Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and… — Lester Bangs
- I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to… — David Bailey