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Glam Rock Quotes

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

David Bowie
Glam Rock, Life And Death, Music And Life
Rolling Stone #206, February 12, 1976.

Did you know that the percentage of young people in the crucial 'youthquake' age bracket of 15 to 24 was higher in 1973 than in 1967 ? Therefore it was glam rock that ended the war in Vietnam.

Ozzy Osbourne
War, Glam Rock, Rocks

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

Brandi Carlile
Rocks, Glam Rock, Two

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

Nick Rhodes
Rocks, Glam Rock, Style

I think that's what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these different ways, or offered up all these options.

Todd Haynes
Thinking, Rocks, Glam Rock
Source: www.avclub.com

Glitter is cool because that's like glam rock, but rhinestones need to die out.

Kemp Muhl
Rocks, Glam Rock, Needs
Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

In my research, all roads led back to Oscar. It's definitely in a way trying to understand the truly English element to glam-rock. It really does not come from American culture.

Todd Haynes
Rocks, Glam Rock, Trying
Source: www.avclub.com

I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band. "Or a song," the Duke said, and then she started singing all glam rock, a glove up to her face holding an imaginary mic as she rocked out an a cappella power ballad. "Oh, I deep fried for you / But now I weep 'n' cry for you / Oh, babe, this meal was made for two / And these hash browns mean nothing, oh these hash browns mean nothing, yeah these HASH BROWNS MEAN NOTHIN' without you.

John Green
Song, Mean, Glam Rock
John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.105, Penguin

Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.

Gary Kemp
Art, Rocks, Glam Rock
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.

Ewan McGregor
Rocks, Glam Rock, Ideas
"New Again: Ewan McGregor". Interview with Todd Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 25, 2012.

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