- Nov 07, 2020
Rock Quotes
On classic rock, bands, and favorite shows.
This collection covers rock in more than one sense - the music genre, discussed with real candor about its predictability, and a beloved TV comedy someone dreams of appearing on. Related reading: Love.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I grew up, there was one music: rock n' roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don't know why it happened, but it did happen.
- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
- Classic Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
- Crossover
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'Frasier,' a network executive once suggested that one week we have John Lithgow play Frasier and Kelsey Grammar play Lithgow's role on '3rd Rock From the Sun;' I've been deeply afraid of the idea of a crossover ever since.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The early parodies that talk-show people did of rock n' roll in the '50s were terrible. They didn't know it, they didn't like it - and that's a lethal combination.
- Hidden
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some geologists involved with prospecting for oil and other hidden resources who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pronouncement.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020