Kim Fowley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent.
-- Kim Fowley

#Reality #Rocks #Rock And Roll
The loneliness of a visionary is that you might be the only one in the universe at that time who recognizes magic. I'm a magical person, and so I recognize other magical people. It takes ones to know one.
-- Kim Fowley

#Loneliness #People #Magic
The only guy who's honest is the guy who sings in the shower. Everyone else is a prostitute.
-- Kim Fowley

#Guy #Honest #Showers
The only thing happening in San Diego County is Eno and closet homosexuality.
-- Kim Fowley

#San Diego #Homosexuality #Closets

Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.
When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.
If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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.
If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for.
Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

Kim Fowley famous quotes

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