Rock Bands Quotes - Page 5

• It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.

  Sam Kinison

  Rocks, People, Giants

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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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• 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'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 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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• 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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• A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Mind, Band

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• 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.

  Billy Bragg

  Believe, Opportunity, Player

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• Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

  Al Jourgensen

  Thinking, Rocks, Southern

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• Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense".

  Mike Huckabee

  Rocks, Guitar, Play

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• It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

  Al Yankovic

  Teenager, Player, Rocks

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Night, Rocks, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team.

  Gene Simmons

  Football, Team, Rocks

  "Gene Simmons: 'I Don’t Like Handlers’". Interview with Carla Hay, sleazeroxx.com. June 6, 2004.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school.

  Miles Teller

  Senior, Mom, School

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me that when they were 13 or 14 years old they had a punk rock band and I'd called him and wanted to make a record with them then.

  John Hiatt

  Boys, Rocks, Years

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• Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job

  Billy Corgan

  Jobs, Rocks, Band

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• I started playing around with local rock band swith the alto. And then, in a nutshell, somebody fell ill one night, the lead singer of one of the bands, and they knew I could sing, so they asked me if I would stand in. And I quite enjoyed it, actually, I must say, at 14. It was a real trip to have girls wave at you and smile and everything just because you opened your mouth and sang.

  David Bowie

  Girl, Real, Night

  Source: www.npr.org

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