Quotes About Glam Rock

#1. 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

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

Kemp Muhl

#3. 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

#4. I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.

Laurent Brancowitz

#5. 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

#6. When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

David Bowie

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.

Shane West

#11. 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

#12. I never, ever saw myself as glam because I didn't wear makeup ... my image is a plain leather jumpsuit, which is not glam at all. I've always seen myself as rock n' roll and not glam.

Suzi Quatro

#13. The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to.

Michael Nesmith

#14. I don't believe you should interfere with any classic for reasons of religious or political correctness.

Terry Hands

#15. It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#16. His fists clenched at his sides. 'Damn it! Where's your pride?'
'Pride? It's in my heart, of course.'
'You're letting me demean you!'
She smiled. 'You can't do that. I can only demean myself.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#17. You're tough when you need to be, and you can charm the pants off men who have three times your experience.
Well, yes. Although I try not to take advantage of that too often. Very awkward negotiating with people who are sitting around in their underwear.

Julie James

#18. You're a "chibi", and nobody notices you." Halfway good-looking people, according to Ricki, blended into the crowd. They never left any kind of strong impression. They were bland and anonymous. Ugly people, on the other hand, with fleshy noses or thin lips, always attracted attention.

Naomi Hirahara

#19. Don't start by talking about your products and services instead think about the people you are trying to reach

David Meerman Scott

#20. The good thing about directing yourself is that you get over yourself.

John Slattery

#21. I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast
I am alone in the night
Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I
I've got a war in my mind
So, I just ride

Lana Del Rey

#22. For amusement, they ingest whatever flammable liquids are at hand and sing badly at the top of their lungs.

Ransom Riggs

#23. The positions I played, every play, I was making contact, not like that Deion Sanders. He couldn't tackle my wife. He's back there dancing out there instead of hitting.

Chuck Bednarik

#24. An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.

G.K. Chesterton

#25. But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.

Rick Wakeman

#26. I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.

Peter Diamandis

#27. New York is eating young geniuses [businessmen] up alive. It's eating them up alive, Stone. And it's showing the beauty of the city, but it's showing the toughness and the viciousness of the city.

Donald Trump

#28. Who that man in the black Sedan
With two cheap hookers and a Mexican
Pumpin' white lines, sippin' warm Coors Light
Mickey Avalon, call me Mr. Right

Mickey Avalon