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I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician. -- Geddy Lee
I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom. -- Boris Becker
The feathers have been retired to the London Hard Rock Cafe. I don't obsess about it as much. Also, it's strange - the better physical shape I get in, the less I care about what suit I'm covering myself up in. I'm not really out to flaunt it, but I'm just more comfortable in my own skin. -- Brandon Flowers
You can drink out of Lincoln's nose. They got the Hard Rock t-shirts. They got Elvis, too. -- Suzy Bogguss
When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn't there, Burger King, etc. -- Peter Morton
I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal. -- Frances McDormand
I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy. -- Gary Carter
Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only. -- Ritchie Blackmore
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime. -- Chuck Eddy
The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure. -- Eddie Trunk
Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden. -- Eddie Trunk
Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments. -- Havelock Ellis
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock. -- Mick Mars
I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it. -- Ritchie Blackmore
Listening to hard rock on the subway doesn't work for me, especially modern hard rock. Driving in L.A. helped me to understand the appeal of that music. -- Paul Dano
Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world. -- David Coverdale
I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music. -- Joan Jett
In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didn't get to when I was younger. -- Rick Rubin
Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented. -- Alice Cooper
I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them. -- Harry Reid
One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries. -- Eddie Trunk
So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from. -- Slash
The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it. -- Don Bluth
The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch. -- Jon Landau
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs... I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet. -- Corey Taylor
I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard. -- Edgar Winter
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music? -- Ozzy Osbourne
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music? -- Neil Young
When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#. -- Tom Morello
I like everything from hard-style techno to rock n' roll. -- Kodi Smit-McPhee
I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies. -- Paul Westerberg
Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem! -- Lauryn Hill
Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat. -- Keith Richards
Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock. -- Ann Wilson
I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories. -- Art Alexakis
I've done the country, done the pop-rock, done the super-hard electro. -- Kesha
Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs. -- Antonin Scalia
I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat. -- John Swartzwelder
You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll. -- Billy Joel
Love is a hard rock between two people and can't be torn apart -- Lillian Gish
'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble. -- Richard Baxter
I understand how hard rock fans feel inside out, because I was one of those people. -- Charlie Simpson
The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from. -- Izzy Stradlin
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities. -- Mercedes Lackey
What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere. -- Ovid
Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to. -- Scott Weiland
I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart. -- Randy Travis
To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing. -- Kelly Osbourne
I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks. -- Phoebe Snow
Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody. -- Cung Le
...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force." Vesadeva to Siddartha -- Hermann Hesse
And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. -- Neil Gaiman
If anybody wants to be a rock star they've gotta try hard enough. They're not gonna get it handed to them -- Marilyn Manson
I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have. -- Gary Cherone
What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave. -- Ovid
It's gonna be okay, no matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back. -- Demi Lovato
I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks. -- Joe Cocker
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. -- Art Alexakis
The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock. -- Rajneesh
Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health. -- Stephen Furst
I was into alternative stuff, but I was also open to a little bit of hard rock and metal, like Guns N' Roses, Metallica. -- Girl Talk
I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. -- Roger Glover
I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is. -- Lindsey Haun
Thanks for existing, R.E.M. It's hard to overstate how much these guys changed everything, creating an entire rock audience in their own image. -- Rob Sheffield
My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out. -- Don Baylor
I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that. -- Oscar Isaac
Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth. -- Beth Kephart
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. -- Florence King
Your heart is not living intil it has experienced pain... the pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person. -- Jay Kay
A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all. -- Diana Ross
Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death. -- L. Neil Smith
I'm a hard man to fight and an easy man to please... A Rock n' Roll Outlaw on a Sweet Romance.. I Want To Be Your Man. -- Ashley Purdy
IT'S A LITTLE HARD FOR ME TO STAND BEHIND THE WALLS OF THE GREAT MANSION AND PLAY ROCK AND ROLL STAR. I FEEL THE NEED TO GIVE BACK. -- Jon Bon Jovi
Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and hard to move -- Patricia Briggs
Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it. -- Julian Johnson
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. -- Robert Wyatt
Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem. -- Lauryn Hill
You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music. -- Lance Reddick
It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal. -- Adam Rich
I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course. -- William Butler Yeats
At 15, I started listening to hard rock and heavy metal, but I would say it was more hard rock because I liked Kiss, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, and eventually AC/DC. -- Rick Rubin
I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me. -- Roger Glover
Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world. -- Adam Rich
I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door. -- Stephen King
The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life. -- Ruben Dario

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