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I think there’s nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock ‘n’ roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.
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- Joan Jett
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You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, ‘Mick, it’s time to get yourself a new spoon.’ And you do.
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- Mick Jagger (The Rolling Stones)
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Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there’s a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it’s all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
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- Neil Young
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You can’t give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you’ve tried.
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- Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin)
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Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.
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- Frank Zappa
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Music is for people. The word ‘pop’ is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I’m just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I’m cool.
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- Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen)
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Basically, I’m for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
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- Frank Sinatra
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I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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- Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel)
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The first time it hit me, I was working in an upholstery shop. There was a piece of fabric over part of a couch. The guy I was working for put in three staples. You couldn’t have one or two, but three was the minimum way to upholster something. And it seemed things kept revolving around that. Like, you only need to have three legs on a table. After two, three meant many, and that was it, you don’t have to go any further than that: the three components of songwriting, the three chords of rock’n’roll or the blues – that always seemed to be the number.
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Jack White (via gooberandthepeas
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