Top 100 Quotes On Rock Band
#1. If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.
Daron Malakian
#2. 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.
Carrie Brownstein
#3. It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
Sam Kinison
#4. The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.
Carrie Brownstein
#5. I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled ... a lot.
Stone Gossard
#6. A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.
Alan Light
#7. With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
Ikue Mori
#8. Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.
Gene Simmons
#9. 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.
Mick Jagger
#10. 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.
Charlie Sheen
#11. I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.
Tom Wopat
#12. I didn't care whether or not it was acceptable to mainstream society to be in a rock band. This is what I wanted to do.
Anne Boleyn
#13. My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.
Drake Bell
#14. 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.
Rick Astley
#15. 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.
Yul Vazquez
#16. For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band.
The Edge
#17. 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.
Janis Joplin
#18. When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.
Lizzo
#19. You just don't get it, do you, man?' I said. 'In the '80s if you were in a rock band, when you asked for a hummer, you got a hummer.'
Dr. Roberts nodded and wrote something down on his pad. Maybe it was 'motherfucker'.
Stephen Pearcy
#20. The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.
Henry Rollins
#21. I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
Ian McEwan
#22. I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music.
Simon Cowell
#23. 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.
Ed Robertson
#24. Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.
Psy
#25. Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else.
Walter Martin
#26. We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!
Alvin Lee
#27. You know, with bands like Kiss back out on the road and Aerosmith coming out, we are going to be a band like that, in the sense that it's a big rock band.
Steve Brown
#28. From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
Dave Grohl
#29. Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.
Jimmy Chamberlin
#30. Marriage is a long conversation, someone once said, and maybe so is a rock band's life. A few minutes later, both were done.
Kim Gordon
#31. 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?
David First
#32. I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.
Cynthia Heimel
#33. Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.
Brad Paisley
#34. We've always wanted to do it, something you could dance to, and deep down we always thought we could bring something to the table if we could do it, but the live shows always made us pull back and be a rock band.
Frank Iero
#35. 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.
Bert McCracken
#36. My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.
Kreayshawn
#37. Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.
Ann Wilson
#38. When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band.
Phil Ehart
#39. If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band?
Steve Turner
#40. A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!
Bill Bruford
#41. Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job
Billy Corgan
#42. In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had my own rock band, I played bass and sang. I was one of those kids who really enjoyed being with my friends and doing rather insane, but fun, creative things.
Roger Bart
#43. Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.
Steve Brown
#44. Founding a successful startup is no different than forming a rock band.
Jay Samit
#45. Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?
Win Butler
#46. I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#47. 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.
Aaron Carter
#48. 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.
Carrie Brownstein
#49. 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.
Phil Ehart
#50. Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.
Adam Rich
#51. I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.'
Carmen Electra
#52. It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be.
Bucky Pope
#53. I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin.
Jeff Ament
#54. Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.
Ritchie Blackmore
#55. I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.
Max Weinberg
#56. The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.
Chad Kroeger
#57. I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.
Elizabeth Banks
#58. Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.
Jay McInerney
#59. Well, trust me. Nowadays, babies travel with more crap than a rock band." He
Debra Salonen
#60. Show me on the doll where Fun is a rock band.
Corey Taylor
#61. With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.
Serj Tankian
#62. I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.
Oscar Isaac
#63. I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.
Aleksandar Hemon
#64. If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.
Moby
#65. There was no indie rock band in the 90s at the level of, like, Grizzly Bear. I listen to their records and it's crazy how good they sound. That really freaks me out.
Travis Morrison
#66. My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plastic guitars, a disco ball and a fog machine and some other things. I have a really long work day, and you might find me doing karaoke by myself late at night.
Jeff Kinney
#67. I had this one rock band I used to listen to, but I forgot the name of them ...
Ace Hood
#69. When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.
Moby
#70. Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds.
Neko Case
#71. Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I thought that drawing comic books might be my route.
Adrian Tomine
#72. I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.
Kiesza
#73. I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.
Gerard Butler
#74. Led Zeppelin was the rock band's rock band, but it was Plant who made it special. He had the knack of taking a seemingly inconsequential string of words, adding a searing shriek, and knocking the listener back on his heels. This was no less impressive on stage than in the restaurant.
Andre The BFG
#75. Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
Alessandro Nivola
#76. I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.
Huey Lewis
#77. It can and will be a more powerful sound but the orchestra has far more potential for expressive power. When I hear a great rock band it can make me feel alive, but when I hear a great orchestra it can make me feel human.
Glenn Branca
#78. I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
Kaley Cuoco
#79. I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of '70s hard rock music.
Chris Stapleton
#80. This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.
Charisma Carpenter
#82. I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.
Bruno Mars
#83. When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn't a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality.
Gerard Butler
#84. I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.
Dexter Holland
#85. In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
Travis Barker
#86. Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band ... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.
Carl Wilson
#87. If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.
Douglas Booth
#88. 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.
Steve Valentine
#89. I think Everclear is a weird combination of a singer-songwriter and a hard-rock band. That's why some people really dig the band, and some don't.
Art Alexakis
#90. We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.
Joe Elliott
#91. Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.
Faith Hunter
#92. I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.
Steve Albini
#93. After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.
Chad Kroeger
#94. Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.
Dweezil Zappa
#95. You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.
Billy Corgan
#96. I think there is always room for a timeless sounding rock band like us.
Steve Brown
#97. Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.
Lance Loud
#98. Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.
Carrie Brownstein
#99. I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me that when they were 13 or 14 years old they had a punk rock band and I'd called him and wanted to make a record with them then.
John Hiatt
#100. We didn't know what the reception was going to be when we walked out on the runway, but it felt like we were in a rock band. People started cheering. It was a nice way to begin Zoolander 2, with that kind of reception.
Owen Wilson
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