- Punk
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- 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
- Pond
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- Nov 07, 2020
The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner... And at the other end of the spectrum, I had Eric Clapton in a rock and blues sense, jazz guys such as Tal Farlow and Les Paul... Then Chet Atkins-type stuff.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.
- Niche
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock music is niche.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were doing shows in the mid-'90s, the audiences were 95% black. What's happened now is the gentrification of hip-hop. A lot of cities passed ordinances that made it hard for black audiences to gather in large groups. Clubs are more open to hip-hop now 'cause it's the same crowd that goes to rock shows.
- Sex
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock n' roll from a medium that was about cars and girls and gave it context, interesting chord changes and true musicianship.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020