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"Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot closer to factory work than art, whatever level you're doing it at. Certainly chefs are used to living like rock 'n' rollers to some extent, inasmuch as we get a lot of those fringe benefits without having to learn how to play guitar."
"You can't kill rock and roll without a silver bullet because she's a werewolf."
"It's so glamorous, you have to see it." (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)"
"Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert."
"As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson."
"When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids."
"Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else."
"On the grey rock of Cashel I suddenly saw A Sphinx with woman breast and lion paw, A Buddha, hand at rest, Hand lifted up that blest; And right between these two a girl at play That, it may be, had danced her life away."
"Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health."
"Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial."
"Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you."
"Great coders are today’s rock stars."
"We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people."
"I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across."
"[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing."
"I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo. I mean, that's what it is. I'd much rather hear that than the jazz/rock thing because it's blowing an aspect of jazz that I really like...the level where you can snap your fingers to it and you can groove to it. You can do anything to it."
"I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars."
"Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night."
"I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll."
"It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive."
