Being A Rock Star Quotes

#1. If somebody had told me that you have a choice of
being a rock star or playing left field for the Tigers,
there would not have been a choice at all. I would
have said, 'Where's my locker?'

Alice Cooper

#2. I always looked up to Slash from Guns N' Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the guitar, just going crazy.

Amber Rose

#3. Work-home-work-home, that's being an actor. Being a rock star? I get to travel the world, meet all the fans in person, party with my fans every night, and people who appreciate the art.

Mitchel Musso

#4. Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.

Flea

#5. Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.

Art Spiegelman

#6. I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

Anthony Kiedis

#7. Well, what's the point of being a rock star if I can't bang the groupies?"
Rolling my eyes, I found myself muttering, "I thought it was supposed to be about the music?"
Griffin, unfortunately, heard y sullen comment and chose to respond to it. "No, no, I'm pretty sure it's the pussy.

S.C. Stephens

#8. When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, and, then, I got waylaid - that's probably an unfair way to say it - from being a rock star by the musical theatre stuff, which I love doing.

Jason Robert Brown

#9. I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the drummer for Muse ... It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days.

Stephenie Meyer

#10. How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

Jason Giambi

#11. I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

Sunny Mabrey

#12. I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

Brian Molko

#13. I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.

Billy Corgan

#14. When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star ... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.

Rivers Cuomo

#15. I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star!

Tommy Hilfiger

#16. Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

Courtney Love

#17. The album's called A to B, right?" Bosco said. "And that's the question I want to hit straight on: how did I go from being a rock star to being a fat fuck no one cares about? Let's not pretend it didn't happen.

Jennifer Egan

#18. The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.

Flea

#19. When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.

Nathan Fillion

#20. Being a rock star is the intersection of who you are and who you want to be.

Ava Dellaira

#21. Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

Linda Evangelista

#22. I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.

Ted Nugent

#23. I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

Gene Simmons

#24. I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

Patti Smith

#25. I enjoy hating musicians far more than I enjoy appreciating them. As far as I'm concerned, when someone becomes a rock star, he quits being a person.

Chuck Klosterman

#26. Sometimes you can miss out on something amazing by being in a hurry.

Samantha Chase

#27. You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

David Bowie

#28. I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

Kid Rock

#29. You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.

James Wolk

#30. Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.

Matthew Lillard

#31. If you're going to be a fucking rock star go be one. People don't want to see the guy next door on stage; they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.

Lemmy Kilmister

#32. I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

Eddie Van Halen

#33. The disparity between being a 10-year-old boy playing air guitar, wishing I was a rock star, and the reality of the whole thing is insane. A girl will throw her bra onstage, and I say to myself, if I was the guy that pumped your gas today, would you throw your bra at me?

John Rzeznik

#34. There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur.

Michael Arrington

#35. Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.

Sammy Hagar

#36. Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

Trent Reznor

#37. I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry.

Rivers Cuomo

#38. Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!

Lawrence Bender

#39. I don't think you can be a mysterious rock star the same way you could in 1965 because there's too much information. Everything you do is available all the time. So the only thing you can rely on is not being false.

Chris Martin

#40. being an asshole doesn't make you seem like a rock star--it just makes you seem like an asshole.

Jesse Cannon

#41. There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.

Paul Theroux

#42. I still love the skinny jeans thing and I wear my favorite leather jacket constantly. I like being kind of a rock star. I love that I can feel comfortable in a small dress or I can feel comfortable wearing a baggy T-shirt.

Ellie Goulding