“Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.” IdeasSongBehindsPlayerRocksBandGloryConceptsRock And RollDiggingRaggedCassettes Author:Krist Novoselic
“I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.” PeopleStillsBigsRocksBandJazzSurprisingRock And RollJazz Music Author:Bobby Vinton
“We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension.” FeltPathRocksBandTensionRock And RollReplacements Author:Paul Westerberg
“We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.” ThinkingShouldYearsLooksMadeSchoolTreeMiddleRocksCoupleBandEconomicsShould HaveGrantedShakesIdleRock And RollBack WhenRippedReplacements Author:Paul Westerberg
“I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio.” PlayImpossibleRocksBandRadioBetrayalRageBobRock And RollDylan Author:Greil Marcus
“I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.” SchoolRocksBandRock And RollJugs Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.” WorldFirstsDoneLastsNamesRocksBandStonesWavePopsRapMetalsPunkRollingRock And RollRolling Stones Author:Bob Dylan
“Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.” PeopleReasonThreeSimpleRichRocksFameBandRock And RollGet RichGetting Laid Author:Bob Geldof
“I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.” RocksBandAustraliaRock And Roll Author:Bon Scott
“When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.” PeopleFirstsRocksMetsBandStartingCooksAwardsRock And RollDaveMtvAfghan Author:Denis Leary
“The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.” ShowsRocksStageBandRock And RollJeansTheatrical Author:Amanda Palmer
“People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.” PeopleKnowsWritingKindWantedSchoolCertainSongClassNovelCreativeRocksCollegeBandUniversityBarsRock And RollCreative WritingGreat AmericanFraternityTop 10SyracuseClasses In School Author:Lou Reed
“We are a band that stylistically crosses a lot of barriers and generational gaps. The heavier portion of the band, the modern music elements, the visual part of the band appeal to a younger audience. For an older audience, we have chops and great songs that are reminiscent of the things that were great about rock and roll when they enjoyed it. We're the kind of band that can cross those lines.” KindSongLinesAudienceModernRocksBandElementsCrossesEnjoyedAppealsVisualsBarriersGapsPortionsRock And RollModern Music Author:Andy Biersack
“I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.” WantNeedsMeanCountryHouseRocksHeroBandStonesFranceUselessRock And RollRolls Royce Author:John Lydon
“There's a great rock and roll scene in Sweden. There are many smaller bands like ourselves that are great. Oh yes, there's a band called Eggstone, they're really good, and a band called the Soundtrack Of Our Lives, which is excellent.” Our LivesRocksSceneBandExcellentRock And RollSwedenSoundtracks Author:Nina Persson
“Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter of fact, before Mike, Woody and I really got going on touring on the old Animosity stuff, Karl & I did about a dozen shows performing the Blind album from start to finish. He's still a good friend of mine and is now in a band called Lead Foot that's more Rock and Roll but they're fantastic, kind of Thin Lizzy or MC5 sounding.” KindStillsMatterFactsShowsGuyStuffRecordsFeetRocksMinesBandBlindAlbumsSellingFantasticPerformingDozenGood FriendRock And RollMikeTouringMatter Of FactWoodyAnimositySecond BestGreat GuyLizzy Author:Reed Mullin
“When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.” KindSongRocksBandSingingJazzSingersTeenagerHolidayOperaRock And RollMysticalJuneLethargyDowntroddenOpera SingersCallas Author:Patti Smith
“Rock n' roll is over, don't you get it? It lasted 25 years and now gets wiped out. The Sex Pistols were the bullet in the brain. They were the last rock and roll band.” YearsLastsSexBrainRocksBandRock N RollBulletsRock And RollPistolsSex Pistols Author:John Lydon
“For us Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is bigger than the music. It is very much an experience that brings a lot of skills and discoveries about yourself together. In that respect, it also enables you to learn that being in a band is a lot tougher than sitting around and playing guitar in your bedroom.” TogetherFantasyRocksBandSkillsSittingDiscoveryBiggerGuitarAbout YourselfCampsBedroomRock And RollSitting AroundPlaying Guitar Author:Rob Halford