Top 1200 Rock Band Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

Trying to make it and get people to respect your band, being a cool band-all of that stuff-I think we've arrived at a place where we have kids and everything is in perspective and it doesn't matter.

I got really into rock - soft, romantic rock was my jam.

I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.

I think it's natural for people to see a band and imagine themselves as part of that. That's what I grew up fantasizing about, looking at posters of bands on my wall. There is an allure to a band.

This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it

Rock stars against drugs--that's what we want, isn't it? Government-approved rock-n-roll? Woo! We're partying now!

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Southern rock, classic rock.

My first album was all rock. I used to sing rock en espanol, but I don't think many people remember that.

My boyfriend isn't a rock star. His values are rock solid. We met at a dinner and he made me laugh.

It's silly to me to not be positive about rock advancing and growing. Really, we just want rock n' roll to be mainstream.

I never really liked the lyrics or the sameness of the music. It always seemed to have the same rhythm or whatever. But when it turned a little more rock, I kind of liked it. I like what Kid Rock did to country. I like all the modern, new stuff that's coming out, and it just so happens that my boyfriend is not a country player, but he was a rock musician.

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

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

"if a rock falls on another rock on the other side of the moon, how does Islam explain it?" "Who Cares?"

Build on the rock before you hit rock bottom!

It is said that if one chooses to pray to a rock with enough devotion, even that rock will come alive.

I want to rock till I drop. I love rock and roll music. It keeps you young.

'Spinal Tap' began as a mock rock band that we four - Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and myself - developed for an appearance on a TV pilot at the end of the 1970s. On our own initiative, we wrote and recorded most of the songs and performed them live in several music clubs around L.A. before any cameras rolled.

Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its many incarnations and under various leaders, they have demonstrated the highest qualities of musicianship imaginable, plus a willingness to balance their big band tradition with creative exploration. Astounding ensemble work, insightful interpretations of the arrangements, imaginative writing, and above all, a loving attention to musicality . . . these people play beautifully.

I grew up going to rock shows, and the lines of rock n' roll cross over with wrestling so much.

A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.

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.

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

I've always worn my wedding band when I'm working out. A few years ago I realized how dangerous wearing a metal band could be and switched to silicone.

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'

When I was a kid, I was interested in folk music. But rock represented power, and I became the best rock guitarist in my school.

Fans feel so close to us and can relate to us because not only do we look like the kids at our shows, we're in the crowd with the kids at our shows. We don't create this weird barrier like we're some crazy rock band.

Sometimes the band can't fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I've also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that.

I'm so in tune with rocks and nature. On any rock around the world, if I hurt the rock, I feel like I'm hurting myself.

Used to rock a throwback ballin on the corner, now I rock tailored suit lookin' like a owner.

There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me.

It isn't necessary to be an untouchable rock-icon guy surrounded by bodyguards and be ushered in and out and have everyone do everything for you. It isn't necessary to change the way you present your band to the public just because you're successful. That happened a lot in the '80s: there was a school of thought that said people would like you more if you acted like you were the unattainable star.

Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.

One of the first media tours I did was with The Rock - no one knew who I was, as I had just come from WCW; they thought I was The Rock's bodyguard.

I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.

Everything is winged in this universe, even a rock! When the time comes, rock crumbles into tiny pieces and starts flying in the air!

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band had another blacksmith shop in Abbott, but he liked me. All he had was horns and drums, and I was set up over there with my little guitar with no amps or nothing. I would play as loud as I wanted to, and nobody could hear me.

I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.

Rock bands don't really swing... a lot of rock is stiff. They don't understand the feel, the movement, you know, the jungle of it all.

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.

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

I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there. The joy, the optimism, the teamwork, the experimentation, the exploration, the curiosity. No band has inspired more artwork, no band has inspired more books. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I'm involved in all of that stuff.

Meghdhanush has brought the newer generation close to folk music with their personal touch of rock and they definitely rock at it.

Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.

I was part of a metal and rock band, and I performed in front of 3000 to 4000 people for many years. I was the loudest mouth up there on stage. We would be screaming, head-banging and mass venting. We would all vent our feelings together, which is ideal as compared to participating in political and social forums, and I never felt any restrictions.

The electric guitar and its players hold a place of privilege in the annals of rock music. It is the engine, the weapon, the ax of rock.

I consider myself a rock climber but the definition of rock climbing as has changed.

You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

In the beginning of my career I had to deal with the fact that since I was the only woman in the band, the singer and the face of the band, I obviously got the most of the attention of the public everywhere I went.

I'm a street player, and all of my influences come from bands that I was listening to at the time when I was growing up. I was very impressed with guys like Mitch Mitchell. I liked rock and roll drummers, and I loved rhythm and blues guys like Clyde Stubblefield with James Brown. Man, that band blew me away all of the time.