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"I've been at this for ten years, and whether new or old, I have the most loyal fans in the world because they know I work hard at what I do and actually give a s**t about them. I don't need any critic to tell me who or what I am when Lynard Skynard, Run DMC, Aerosmith, and Hank Williams JR told me I'm good." - Kid Rock
"Music today is in a big fog," Kid Rock says, "a haze if you will. No one's sure where its going, but I like to think that I've got the best set of fog lights out there."
Versatile Kid "I like a wide variety of music, and that's cool in a lot of ways - it might expose people to a lot more music. There's a lot more music than just mine out there that I think people should listen to."
Krazy and Kool Kid "Some days I'm laidback and focused on my talents like Sheryl Crow, and other days I'm just having a ball, kicking sex rhymes with Snoop, just having fun."
“I love country music, I love blues music,” Kid Rock tells CMT host Greg Martin, who asked him if he has considered making a straight country album. “Sometimes when I’m picking and playing, I think people forget that I started off as a rapper. That’s what I’ll always be in my heart. I have a lot of other talents and I appreciate a lot of different music. “I hope to be able to sing as good as this guy one day and play as good as him,” Kid Rock continues, patting Williams’ shoulder. “I’m trying. I got the best teacher out there. The [country] influence will always be in my music, but am I going to go country? I think I was born country.”
"There's a deeper message in all those fucking words I say, and people never get it. If this album sells a million, if all those people actually get it, that'll be the most beautiful thing in this world. Because–you know what I did?–I became part of the problem."
"If all this doesn't work, I ain't going to complain," Rock said. "I'll just go back to Detroit, and be like, ‘Cool, I'm still making music.’ And as long as I can do that, I'll do this shit 'til I'm dead. So if this record don’t sell, I’ll just turn to the label and say, ‘Thanks man, you guys tried. I made a good record, and you guys fucking tried to promote it as hard as you could. It's all good.’"
"Sometimes you can get a little egotistical, wanting things your way even when you're wrong. Even some stupid things. Yeah, I sold 10 million records but I try not to throw it around too much. But at the same time, I've been calling the shots from day one. I'm the one who takes the blows and also takes the credit."
"I think I'm trying to establish what my hard-core fan base already knows," said Rock, whose real name is Bob Ritchie. "I think I'm reinforcing the fact that I'm doing a lot more things now. I'm becoming a better songwriter, a better singer. I'm stepping outside the mold that everybody wants to put you in."
“I don’t really have a problem with many things, to be honest .”
"When I got my first $100,000 check I marched over to my dad and threw it in his face," Ritchie said while calling from his home studio in Northern Michigan. "Then when I got my first $1 million dollar check I pulled it out in front of him and said 'check this out. And what's in my other pocket? A check for $4 million.' I was just messing with him. I love my dad."
"My mom is the best," Ritchie said. "Why wouldn't I want her to be with me?" You would never hear Ritchie's notorious Motor City pal Eminem utter those words. "It is really different for us unfortunately," Ritchie said. "My mom sums it up best. She was watching him on an awards show and a bunch of pills fell out of his pocket, which I thought was hysterical. But she said, 'it's so sad for him. He has no one to thank.' You can have all the money in the world and all the success but what does it matter if you don't have anyone to share it with."
"We're doing it just like the ol' country guys do it," Ritchie said. "I just want to be working the weekends. My son is with his mother (Ritchie's ex-girlfriend Kelley Russell) then anyway and I could be with him all week so it works out. I can spend quality time with him. I may lose money but who cares? I make more than enough of it anyway. I want to be at home with him more than anything."
Ritchie does have a Malibu pad. However, it's interesting that he would rather be based in chilly, unpretentious Northern Michigan than in glitzy Southern California. "You can have it all if you really want it," Ritchie said. "You just have to work hard for it."
"I grew up on that stuff and I'm not ashamed of it because I love it," Ritchie said. "But I've never been afraid to mix up what I love. In this country kids are defined by one thing that they like. They're into rap or punk. But that's never been me. When I used to DJ in the ghetto I would show up in my skateboarding gear. I'd be wearing my Tony Hawk shirt and people would be like, that dude is crazy. I'm just being me. I'm good at flipping people out."
If it looks good you'll see it ; If it sounds good you'll hear it ; If its marketed right you'll buy it ; but if its real you'll feel it ; - Kid Rock
Quotes by Others
"Bob just know where he wanted to go. He always has this vision of where he's taking everything," Says Sutton. " I think he sees the finish line before the race even starts"
"Bob takes fame very well. It's something that he's worked for for a long time and he seems to embrace it pretty easily. -Uncle Kracker
" When people get big and move on, they tend to forget," say Tino Gross, frontman for the Diablos. "He's not doing that. He's backing up his people-- thats rare. He knows what it took to get there.
" I don't think it matters what kind of music you play. I think that when you're real, people will know it. Naturally, everybody's going to try to jump on the bandwagon with Bob becuase he's hot right now. But I liked him before he was havin' all them hit records and everything. I just knew he was real." - David Allan Coe
"I'm still impressed. Everyday something amazes me about him. He's taught me a lot; as a best friend, as a person and as an artist."- Uncle Kracker
Kracker says at the root of Kid Rock, the partying, stripper-groping wild man, is a dogged professional who has respect and devotion for his audience. "Whether he layed at the Ritz in front of two people or at the State theartre in front of 3,000, the kids go what they deserved-- what they paid for. Kids came and they paid the money and they got a show-- he's always carried himself like a profesional"-Uncle kracker
(Talking about Kid Rock) People judge him for this and that. He's talented and can play ever instrument. He can go country, rap, rock, metal whatever. Not many bands can do that, thats staying power, thats what represnts a superstar musician.
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