Quotes About Rock

The band readily acknowledged that they borrowed ideas rather than making up their own. "That's all you can do today," Turner explained. "I think you're kinda fooling yourself as a rock band if you think you're doing something really original.

Gordon was an artist who simply transferred her highly refined aesthetic skills to rock music, a genre that, as punk proved, required a sensibility more than chops anyway.

the urge to rock apparently outstripped the ability to do so.

The most punk rock thing about J's stuff was how much he mixed all his influences

they weren't kids anymore—they were pushing thirty; even more important, Lunsford had become a proud papa in 1990. "I had to say, 'What are my primary commitments?' " he says. "Being in a seriously touring rock & roll band is difficult to do as a parent.

seemed that the DIY ethos that gave birth to the indie rock movement was threatening to become its undoing. Now everyone was doing it themselves—and a lot of it was mediocre. And like an oversize herd of deer, there was simply too much of it for all to thrive.

no careerist goals whatsoever. "I don't think any of us wanted to be rock stars," says Miller. "That was what I thought punk had set out to do—to get rid of rock stars.

For a while, there effectively was no underground. "I thought that was the end of what you might call punk rock," says Peter Prescott, "because punk rock is unique and individual and is not for everybody. So almost by definition it can't be popular.

We were parked in the lot of a strip shopping center on Tustin Boulevard in the city of Orange. Book Carnival was a small business between a rock shop and what looked like a vacant slot. Three doors down was a gun store.

Isla Nublar, Hammond explained, was not a true island. Rather, it was a seamount, a volcanic upthrusting of rock from the ocean floor. "Its volcanic origins can be seen all over the island," Hammond said. "There are steam vents in many places, and the ground is often hot underfoot. Because of this, and also because of prevailing currents, Isla Nublar lies in a foggy area.

What is remarkable about his study is that it respects all of Japan's sacred cows–that the rock core of the city won't be much affected, that people will respond as humanely and efficiently as they do in government reports, that no important officials will perish, that skyscrapers will stand–and still it predicts Armageddon.

George Martin makes a paternal appearance. (I don't have the cheek to ask him if he'd seen himself described in a magazine article recently as 'the Michael Palin of rock'!) He says the studio conversion cost about £15 million. 'Half the money was Japanese, so I feel I'd done my bit to pay them back for the Burma Railway,' he says, elegantly.

It's not really a popular consensus to sing Sinatra - which I love! And I just think it's so cool that he disliked rock n' roll so much.

Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.

I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child.

America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

I'm a singer-songwriter. So I play guitar, and I sing. Along the lines of, I guess you could call it, alternative rock.

On piano, I tend to write either gospel or singer-songwriter songs, sometimes kind of rocking blues songs. But the more heavier rock stuff I will write on bass.

My parents are actually very famous singers in Bulgaria. My dad was in a rock band, and my mom was in a pop group. They met, fell in love, and actually formed a group together to escape the country because it was Communist, and they couldn't leave. They didn't know any English but eventually found their way to America.