"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."
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"Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record."
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"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets."
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"Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy."
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"You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex."
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"The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built."
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"As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed."
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"Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock."
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"He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder."
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"Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music."
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"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."
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"From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them."
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"I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music."
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"Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken."
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"My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die."
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"Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star bullshit. None of the techs backstage care if you're David Bowie or the milkman. When you act like a jerk, they are completely unimpressed with the infantile display that you might think comes with your dubious status. They were there hours before you building the stage, and they will be there hours after you leave tearing it down. They should get your salary, and you should get theirs."
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". . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force."
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"I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I'm sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture."
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"It'd be the thrill of anyone's bull riding career to ride Red Rock. Like when Freckles Brown rode Tornado."
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"A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that."
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