Top 1200 Rock Bands Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We're in a time when bashing is the norm - especially on social media, where everybody's online and no one interacts face-to-face. There's a quote I found yesterday - it was hilarious: "People need to chill, like literally, we're floating in space on a giant rock we can't leave. Look at the stars or something instead of being awful." You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing.

My hand landed on a rock, and the gnome landed on it, squashing my thumb between the rock and the gnome. Basically, it was crushed and took the end of my thumb off. I just looked at my hand, and the first thought that flashed into my mind was, 'How on earth am I going to make my devil horn sign now? That's my trademark!'

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that but in the end I'm just a person. I really don't live like a rock star, economically or socially. I still live a pretty simple life beside the traveling aspect of it.

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.

I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.

I really fell in love with the art of making clothes when I was dancing on tour. Creating my stage image through clothes was a blast. I discovered a total sense for what cool chicks and rockin' dudes like to wear. Total Skull is for those people. People that like to rock - total rock.

We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

The Ramones were inspiring a lot of bands that couldn't master their instruments.

Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied. For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world.

In the '80s, we played the Roxy and the Whiskey with our bands.

If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

Bad Brains is one of my all-time favorite punk bands.

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant

When I used to have braces, I would match my rubber bands to the season.

Not a lot of bands get to go out on their own terms.

I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.

I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.

I love bands like Queen, Zeppelin, The Beatles.

I love finding EPs for bands that you just discover.

I've been part of five different bands in my time.

All the bands I've played with have had dynamic front men.

A rock-and-roll group needed a name that fit criteria in three areas: It had to be great for a bowling team; it had to be great for a gang; and it had to be great for a rock-and-roll group. So we called ourselves Dion and the Belmonts.

Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

The other bands are just as bad, but we go to jail more.

I know I express myself best singing love songs, and Jim Steinman gave me my rock style, which I have always wanted. I can express myself best putting a lot of emotion into singing rock songs.

I tend to pick objectives that I feel are safe because I know that, in the moment, I always go for it. I have some rules for myself, though: Look for the rock faces without a lot of loose rock. Always rope up on glaciers where there is even a slight chance of falling into a crevasse. No pure free soloing. Never climb below hanging glaciers.

In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.

Soft rock music isn't rock, and it ain't music. It's just soft. Reminds me of something my third-grade teacher said to us. She said, "You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala."

Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and neuter. So if you have a genitive present, there's room for everybody to fit in. I just did a project in Vienna about rock, paper, scissor; you change the gender and it simply changes the whole thing. Rock is no longer a male. It doesn't function the same way.

I love collaborating because I come from the world of being in bands.

Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more vibrant; I'm more active than I've ever been. The F-word really is freedom. It's the freedom to have dropped the rock-the rock of addiction, of family, of comparisons with other people. It's being fit and focused and kind of furious.

Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.

I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.

One of the [Million Mom] marchers said 'the hands that rock the cradle rule this nation.' I thought, 'no Madame, the hands that rock the cradle rule our families and governments and corporations. The hands that wrote the Constitution rule this nation'.

I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days.

I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.

Sometimes, for bands, everything just happens too fast.

I've always been in touring bands in some capacity.

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

Punk changed everything. It blew away all the dull, pompous stuff that happened before, like glam rock. Kids were getting involved in causes like Rock Against Racism and they needed music that reflected that. Something similar was happening in comedy too, with the Comedy Store and the alternative scene that I got involved in.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

The press likes to create cat fights with girl bands.

Enuff Z'nuff is one of the most underrated bands in the world!

You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.

You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

The life force knows exactly what it takes to keep any particular living organism - any organism - alive. Anything in manifestation, for that matter. Even a rock is a manifestation of some sort, and you know, in physics and quantum physics, they know a rock is not dead.

I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

I would love it if less bands were hetero.

A lot of the bands I loved, I didn't know where they came from or where they were going.

What I miss from the States, I guess, is going to museums and to see small rock shows in small bars. We don't have that in Hong Kong. Unfortunately because the property market is so high, all rent is so expensive, they can't afford to have a rock music bar because those things don't make a lot of money, and they're paying a lot of rent.

In the mid-1930s, a lot of the Big Bands sounded the same.