"I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop."
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"The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe."
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"I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice."
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"T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy."
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"When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s."
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"I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something]."
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"We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll."
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"There's a beauty in work and I love it, all different kinds of work. That's what I consider it. Rock is my job, and that's my work. And I work my ass off, you know."
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"The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know."
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"The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland."
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"I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band."
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"I grew up with British rock."
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"I want to stick in live television. And I'm hoping to continue on in a second season of Rock Star. Plus, I've got my 'Barely Brooke' swimsuit line with Venus USA and my new calendar is coming out."
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"so, the whole idea, you see, is that everything's falling apart, so don't try and stop it. when you're falling off a precipice, it doesn't do you any good to hang onto a rock that's falling with you. see? but everything is doing that. and so, again, this is another case of our completely wasting our energy in trying to prevent the world from falling apart. don't do it. and then you'll be able to do something interesting with the free energy."
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"I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!"
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"Paul McCartney is a genius ... Paul married Rock & Roll to beauty, and forever raised the bar for composers, musicians, and fans ... an incredible solo performer ... the creator of our favorite songs."
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"I think it would be really awesome to be a rock star."
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"I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?"
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"I love a smart, well-written show, and '30 Rock,' well, you can't get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There's nothing that she does that isn't funny. That show is an example of how brilliant she is. It's so smart. They've done some brilliant commentary about the 'Housewives' with 'Queen of Jordan,' their show-within-the-show."
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"In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star ... Today people can idolize a star in one area and forget about him in another. A big rock star might sell millions and millions of records, but then if he makes a bad movie ... forget it."
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