Top 1200 Rock Band Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being 'progressive'.

Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

A rock band with vocals is what I always wanted to be a part of; in fact, it feels very natural for me.

It's an honor that people give a crap about us. We're in a rock band; we're not supposed to be treated with any respect.

Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.

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

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band.

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock 'n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented.

As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums.

I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.

The funny thing about 'The Naked Brothers Band' movie was that we tricked the audience into thinking that we were actually rock stars.

The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.

People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want!

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.

There's nobody like us in rock history. I'm not saying we're the greatest band in the world - that would be ridiculous.

Revamp is a band that would deserve the hundred-percent devotion a band needs, and at this moment, I don't see any future for another band next to a band such as Nightwish, and with the ambition to become a mother, I will have to let Revamp go, which is a very sad decision.

I played the guitar. When I was 14, I composed songs - Paul McCartney-style things. I had a rock band - we'd compete in festivals.

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

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

The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today

Power is the thing that holds a band of perception together, and a band of perception is life for those who perceive in that band. If the band of perception were to go away, they would not exist.

I like "Rock, Paper, Scissors Two-Thirds." You know. "Rock breaks scissors." "These scissors are bent. They're destroyed. I can't cut stuff. So I lose." "Scissors cuts paper." "These are strips. This is not even paper. It's gonna take me forever to put this back together." "Paper covers rock." "Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks." There should be "Rock, Dynamite with a Cutable Wick, Scissors."

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.

As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18.99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or so. Pay your producer out of that. Then your manager. Then split it five ways among your band mates. Now don't act surprised when you see the drummer of a platinum-selling Canadian rock band behind the drive- thru window at Tim Hortons

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start a band if you didn't know how to play an instrument. But when punk happened it was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter if you can play or not. Go ahead, make a band.' And that's exactly what the Go-Go's did.

Contractual obligations may not allow it, but that's a big dream of mine, to be able to make an album with a rock band.

I love working with my band-mates in Alkaline Trio, but to make a rock record that was just mine was something that I wanted to do.

Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

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.

Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented.

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

Primal Scream could be the biggest band in the world. They are fantastic when they make rock records - once every 10 years.

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

We certainly are proud of our punk-rock heritage, but when people who like other kinds of music are into your band, it's flattering.

Back in 1981, the chances of a punk-rock girl band from L.A. doing what we did was completely nil.

All men in their 40s want to be in rock bands, and I reserve the right to be in a pub band at some point.

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

The Clash is pretty much my favorite band, and their songs like 'Rock the Casbah' are political dance tracks.

When I did my rock band, I pined for a more soulful sound. I wanted music that was very melodic and blues-based.

Porcupine Tree is a band, and it's not up to me where the band goes - it's between the manager, our agent, and the band as a whole.

If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.

I've been involved in a lot of different kinds of projects. I've been on straight hip hop tours. I've been on underground rock tours. I've been on multimillion selling rock shows. I've been in the jam band thing, and both commercial and underground hip hop. Very few people listen to one kind of music.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

I was asked to be in Elton John's band, Joni Mitchell's band, and Miles Davis' band. I couldn't do it.

When I formed the band and created the Wildabouts with my friends, we decided we wanted to make a band-sounding album, a rock-sounding album. I made two solo albums before that were more experimental albums, and I think that they didn't really resonate with my fan base because they were too out-there, too artsy.

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.

Styx was always a theatrical band. In fact, we played City Center in 1983 with a rock opera, 'Kilroy Was Here.'

I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band.