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Rock Musician Inspirational Quotes (332)

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You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.
Frank Zappa
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Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.
Marc Bolan
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One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
Bruce Dickinson
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I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.
Frank Zappa
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Fly me high through the starry skies or maybe to an astral plane, cross the highways of fantasy, help me to forget today's pain.
Gary Wright
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The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.
Frank Zappa
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I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.
Frank Zappa
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Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming... ...clouds of educated gnat-notes.
Frank Zappa
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I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.
Freddie Mercury
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The FCC extorts broadcasters by threatening to take away their licenses for infringements which are usually the result of complaints from an extreme, right wing, tiny bunch of individuals.
Frank Zappa
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa
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Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.
Bruce Dickinson
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I want a horny little Jewish princess.
Frank Zappa
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I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.
Bruce Dickinson
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I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content.
Frank Zappa
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In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.
Frank Zappa
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When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.
Nate Mendel
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We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
Freddie Mercury
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I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?
Freddie Mercury
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The more far-out artists, the better.
Gary Wright
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I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
Gary Wright
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With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.
Bruce Dickinson
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I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.
Marc Bolan
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I'm older, wiser and richer, and I still have just as many headaches. It hasn't changed me drastically certainly, not in terms of relationships. The people I'm close to, and there aren't many of them, have been close for a long time. And we know each other well enough to know it isn't the quantity of time you spend together, it's the quality.
Billy Squier
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