Rock Bands Quotes - Page 6

• Critics and fans use the music of their youth as reference points. For years, people seriously wondered who "the next Beatles" were going to be, and classic rock bands were the de facto yardstick for rock quality.

  Michael Azerrad

  Rocks, Years, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Rocks, Band, Wanted

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

  Crazy, Rocks, Indie Rock

  "The Dismemberment Plan". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2013.

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• I'm fascinated with the attitude of younger rock bands, even ones that are making money at it. I don't ever hear them talk about it as a "career." It almost makes me think there isn't even a music industry anymore, like an atom bomb fell and it was just eradicated forever.

  Travis Morrison

  Attitude, Thinking, Rocks

  "The Dismemberment Plan". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2013.

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• I got to be about 13 and everyone started playing guitars and being in rock bands. There was no place for me with my trumpet and I wasn't cool anymore. Although now if I played the trumpet it would be the coolest thing in the world.

  Douglas Booth

  Rocks, Guitar, Would Be

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• 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

  Song, Rocks, Band

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Cheer, Nice, Rocks

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• I started out, in the mid-'70s, taking photographs of rock bands that I liked but not because I really wanted to photograph them. Initially, I was pretending to be a photographer, simply so that I could go up to the front of the crowd and be a bit closer to the bands. But, I found I was gradually developing an interest in the photos I took.

  Derek Ridgers

  Rocks, Band, Crowds

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else.

  Walter Martin

  Rocks, Years, Band

  "Back to School with Walter Martin". Interview with Matt Berninger, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I think most people start rock bands in their early twenties or teens, but I was almost thirty at the time when the band started really doing anything and it took another several years before people started caring about us.

  Matt Berninger

  Caring, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: the-talks.com

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• 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

  Powerful, Rocks, Band

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• I'm much more into bad, trashy Belgian techno. I like that much more than rock bands. The whole idea of a rock band is so archaic.

  Luke Haines

  Rocks, Ideas, Band

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• I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all.

  Matt Tong

  Rocks, Long, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band.

  Billy Corgan

  Heart, Eye, Rocks

  "Smashing Pumpkins: SPIN’s "Mellon Collie" Cover Story, "Zero Worship". Interview with Craig Marks, www.spin.com. October 23, 2015.

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  Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.

  Freddie Mercury

  Success, Time, Greatness

  "Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London". Interview with Scott Cohen, Circus Magazine, www.queenarchives.com. April 1975.

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• 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

  Eye, Rocks, Long

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• 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

  Crazy, Nice, Kids

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• With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

  Ikue Mori

  Rocks, Play, Band

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

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Rocks, Different, Would Be

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• By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

  Steve Albini

  Wise, Rocks, Band

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• 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

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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• My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

  Chico Hamilton

  Player, Rocks, Two

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• Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.

  Brad Paisley

  Rocks, Band

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• The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

  Chad Kroeger

  Rocks, Important, Band

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• Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

  Rob Sheffield

  Thank You, Rocks, Three

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