"What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful?"

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Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

Ian Astbury

#Stars Quotes #Party Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“Some things are worth the cost of their consequences.”
“Every song is like a painting.”
“I've never called President Obama a racist. I love President Obama. I pray for him all the time. God loves President Obama. God loves you. And God loves me.”
“Vodka is a wonderful drink. You can drink so much of it without being as hung over as you would if you were drinking one of the brown liquors - the whiskeys and such. It's a great drink to go with appetizers.”
“A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.”
“I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling.”
“It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.”
“These are friendships that these girls are making that will be a lifetime and they're doing things that are so abnormal and to such a high level, that there's a bond that's like no other.”

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