Rock Bands Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Moving, Simple, Rocks

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• 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.

  Jeff Cardoni

  College, Indie Rock, Piano

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• 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.

  Bill Watterson

  College, Rocks, Years

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

  DJ Khaled

  Rocks, Fans, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

  Tyler Hilton

  School, Rocks, Band

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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

  Jonathan Haidt

  Errors, Rocks, People

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• 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

  Eagles, Rocks, Singing

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• 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."

  Billy Joel

  Song, Stars, Writing

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• 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.

  Dave Grohl

  Divorce, Rocks, Band

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

  Moby

  Rocks, Band, Punk

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• 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.

  Andy Biersack

  Wise, Song, Writing

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• Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.

  Henry Rollins

  Fun, Rocks, Long

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• 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

  Struggle, Rocks, Band

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• I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Rocks, Band

  "Michael Moore Takes on His Pirates!" by Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. June 19, 2007.

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• 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

  Rocks, Snow, Would Be

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• Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.

  Sebastian Bach

  Rocks, Guy, Video

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• I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.'

  Carmen Electra

  Hero, Rocks, Guitar

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• In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

  Travis Barker

  Rocks, Band, Acoustics

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

  Stone Gossard

  Jobs, Rocks, Band

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

  Bridget Hall

  Rocks, Band, Shirts

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• Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Song, Rocks, Guitar

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• 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.

  Pink

  Children, Rocks, Band

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

  Ian Mcewan

  Successful, Play, Rocks

  "Ian McEwan", www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• 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

  Rocks, Wish, Band

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• 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

  Coffee, Swag, Names

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