{"quotes":[{"text":"Our eyes met and locked as the song came to a halt, followed by a screaming conclusion from the crowd, girls around us pressing me into the stage, forcing all the air out of my lungs, but I’d forgotten about doing anything so basic as breathing.","author":"Emme Rollins","tags":["concert","concerts","crowd","crowded","new-adult","new-adult-romance","rock-and-roll","rock-me","rock-music","rock-star","rockstar","rockstars"],"id":8689,"author_id":"Emme+Rollins"},{"text":"What's it like to be a living legend? A lot fucking better than being a dead one...' Geordie Selwyn, Appetite for Corruption.","author":"Hilary Mortz","tags":["humour","rock-music","science-fiction","tragedy"],"id":32052,"author_id":"Hilary+Mortz"},{"text":"Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even 'ahead' of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.","author":"Lester Bangs","tags":["60s","beatles","beefheart","bob-dylan","captain-beefheart","creativity","criticism","electronica","genius","hard-rock","music","originality","pop","rock","rock-criticism","rock-music","rolling-stones","trout-mask-replica"],"id":62825,"author_id":"Lester+Bangs"},{"text":"The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.","author":"Alice Cooper","tags":["desires","goals","hippies","rock-music"],"id":77517,"author_id":"Alice+Cooper"},{"text":"Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's real rebellion.","author":"Alice Cooper","tags":["alice-cooper","christianity","rebel","rock-music"],"id":196539,"author_id":"Alice+Cooper"},{"text":"We were orphans before we were ever the sons of these songs.","author":"The Gaslight Anthem","tags":["band","gaslight-anthem","rock-music","song"],"id":255559,"author_id":"The+Gaslight+Anthem"},{"text":"Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.","author":"Cher","tags":["age","growing-older","men","music","rock-music","women"],"id":299668,"author_id":"Cher"},{"text":"Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band’s twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled spree of violence. The other band members were quick to let go of their musical dreams, but I never did. They did the ‘mature’ thing: after writing off the band as a teenage fantasy, they got real jobs and made some money. They called it growing up. I called it giving up.","author":"Mark Rice","tags":["bands","dreams","drugs","fantasy","guitar","heavy-metal","mark-rice","metallic-dreams","rock-music","teenage","violence"],"id":305746,"author_id":"Mark+Rice"},{"text":"ROCK STATE OF MINDThe lights go outDarkness takes over my mindI can see only the unreal…The sound of the pianoWhispers in my earsProvoking the sea of tearsBreaking down the stringsAttaching me to my fearsThe violin wakens the dreamsCreating the willDetaching from the groundLifting me upTo be one with the dark cloudsTo feel the storm whelming up insideThe strings of the guitar cinchesThe cords binding me to youLuring me to the ends of the galaxiesGluing me to an inaccessible timeWhere time stands stillAnd pain continuously spillsBut your voice slithers in betweenRising with each beatStretching out its wingsSheltering me from the windFighting my warsRisking it allSilence…..The pulsation of the drumsJoin with the beats of my heartStating their case in syncAwakening me to your presenceAnd in a flash of lightningHeaven and earth become oneThe piano severing the strings to my fearsThe violin forging a stormThe guitar freezing timeYour voice fighting my warsThe drums breathing life into meThat’s rock for meThe rock state of mind.","author":"Evy Michaels","tags":["guitar","life","love","music","piano","rock-music","rock-state-of-mind","state-of-mind","whole"],"id":305754,"author_id":"Evy+Michaels"},{"text":"Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve.","author":"The Kinks","tags":["humor","irony","life-lessons","popular-culture","rock-music","wit"],"id":313276,"author_id":"The+Kinks"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}