Best Rock Bands Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Author:Ann Wilson

“How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.”

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Author:Nate Mendel

“I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.”

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Author:Art Alexakis

“Show me on the doll where Fun is a rock band.”

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Author:Corey Taylor

“Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.”

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Author:PSY

“I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.”

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Author:Yul Vazquez

“I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.”

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Author:Tom Wopat

“I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.”

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Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make than the rock records. I think because it was brand new territory for the band.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“I’ve been making electronic music for twenty some odd years but, because I grew up playing in punk rock bands, when I started touring, I thought in order to be a viable touring musician I had to do it with a band. I would DJ or tour with a full rock band.”

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Author:Moby

“I've never recognized 'emo' as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets labeled with that term hates it. They feel scandalized by it. But honestly, I just thought that all the bands I played in were punk rock bands. The reason I think it's so stupid is that - what, like the Bad Brains weren't emotional? What - they were robots or something? It just doesn't make any sense to me.”

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Author:Guy Picciotto

“I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands.”

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Author:Girl Talk

“Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression. I hate when I feel like I'm the lead guitarist in a rock band. We all gotta be going somewhere strong together, you know?”

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Author:David First

“As much as being in a rock band can be really glamorous and exciting - and it can be a lot of things that people imagine it to be - if you just live that lifestyle, you're gonna burn out really quickly.”

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Author:Ed Robertson

“I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.”

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Author:Bert McCracken

“Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?”

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Author:Win Butler

“I definitely make an effort to work on different styles of music: not working on too many post-rock bands, or too many heavy bands, or too many folk bands, or just whatever. I have no desire to be known as somebody that just works on a single style of music and would rather avoid it, actually.”

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Author:John Congleton

“I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.”

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Author:Stone Gossard

“When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band.”

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Author:Phil Ehart

“Kansas has always considered itself a "rock band" - some people might say "symphonic rock band," others might say a "classical rock band," but we've kind've prided ourselves on being a rock band. Kansas rocks.”

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Author:Phil Ehart

“Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.”

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Author:Dennis Cooper

“With a pop album you can listen to one or two songs from it, but a music album is really an experience. It's not something a whole lot of rock bands do.”

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Author:Dylan Baldi

“For music, I always just played music myself - and, I had rock bands and wrote songs and put bands together that were loud, but not especially good. That was sort of the place music had in my career.”

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Author:Michael Cerveris

“From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.”

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Author:Brian Dietzen

“My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.”

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Author:Steve Valentine

“I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.”

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Author:Janis Joplin

“Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.”

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Author:Mick Jagger

“I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female singers. I like Nirvana, Green Day, System Of A Down. I also like punk rock, and I love bands like Coldplay.”

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Author:Avril Lavigne

“I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.”

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Author:Bridget Hall

“I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.”

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Author:Rick Astley

“With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song.”

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Author:Carrie Brownstein

“Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock band. I was dreaming of like corporate lunches and just like, and I'm not really joking. Like the whole idea to me was really appealing.”

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Author:Carrie Brownstein

“I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.”

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Author:Reggie Watts

“You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock band. So I, in a very naïve and teenage way, said, "That's it. I'm going to be in a band."”

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Author:Michael Stipe

“I was trained at classical piano as a youngster back in PA. To rebel, I bought a drum set and played in some rock & roll bands. In college I picked up a guitar and became obsessed with practicing which led to playing guitar in indie rock bands in the mid 90's. Which led me to Los Angeles.”

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Author:Jeff Cardoni

“I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland for about four years playing in indie rock bands. I love and miss being in a band, I still am in a band but pursuing that as a career I definitely missed it but I felt like that ship had sailed.”

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Author:Bill Watterson

“I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music though.”

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Author:DJ Khaled

“Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.”

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Author:Andy Biersack

“When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.”

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Author:Moby

“I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs."”

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Author:Billy Joel

“You can't criticize Bob Dylan's singing. You have to respect Billy Joel as a brilliant poet. You can't tell me there's a better rock band ever than Led Zeppelin. And if you speak during the Eagles' "Last Resort," we're done. I'm just asking for seven minutes. This stuff really matters, you know.”

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Author:Charlie Sheen

“People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.”

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Author:Jonathan Haidt

“Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.”

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Author:Tyler Hilton

“Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.”

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Author:Brandon Thomas

“The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous extensions of their approach, not radical redefinitions, as has so often been the case with the Beatles.”

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Author:Jon Landau

“I drummed in some rock bands. I asked for a drum kit when I was 15 and my parents were kind enough to buy me one and I just started playing with my buddies who played guitar.”

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Author:Miles Teller

“As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because you're trying to create an identity; you look to others to model.”

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Author:Joan Cusack

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