I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
Elaine Miller: [in the middle of a class lecture] Rock stars have kidnapped my son!
XERB Disc Jockey: Rock 'n' Roll will stand man. Who's this on the Wolfman telephone?
Marty McFly: [sees that he has destroyed the huge speaker] Whoa! Rock 'n' Roll.
A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.
Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians.
... It's the rare God who needs less stroking that a rock Star or poetician ...
Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.
There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.
When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.
Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media i...
Or consider “Here Without You” by 3 Doors Down, or almost any song by the group Maroon 5. Those bands are so featureless that critics and listeners created a new music category—“bath rock”—to describe their tepid sounds. Yet whenever they...
Downloading's the same as what I used to do. I used to tape the charts of the songs I liked [off the radio]. I don't mind it. I hate all these big, silly rock stars who moan. At least they're fuckin' downloading your music, you cunt, and paying atten...
Stanley Goodspeed: Listen, I think we got started off on the wrong foot.Stan Goodspeed, FBl. Uh - Let's talk music. Do you like the Elton John song, "Rocket Man"? Captain Darrow: I don't like soft-ass shit. Stanley Goodspeed: Oh, you - Oh, oh. Oh.Wel...
Furious Styles: [referring to drug epidemic] I know every time you turn on the TV thats what you see, Black People, sellin the rock, pushin the rock, pushin the rock, yeah I know. But that wasn't a problem as long as it was here [referring to Compton...
The game jostled back and forth, and then came the final inning. Some player named Casey came to bat, like his teammates, looking like a rock. Lightning ripped through the air as rain came down in sheets. The scoreboard said the horses were beating t...
