Top 80 Rock Band Quotes

If you‘re going to have a rock band, you’ve got to do it while you’re young.

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

I’m about as privileged as you can get. I’m a white, male, heterosexual front man of a rock band.

As a songwriter and a singer in a successful rock band, I have had the good fortune of being surrounded by incredible musicians, lots of wonderful production on both record and onstage, and plenty of volume!

My first rock band was called Mike and the Majestics. I was about twelve, and my older sister Kathy was the manager. There were three of us: me and a friend on guitars and a drummer. We were young, but we played for a lot of fraternity parties, plugging both guitars and a microphone into one little amplifier.

A lot of people ask how I ended up doing classical music given that I’m in a rock band. The truth is that it’s the other way around. I was trained as a classical musician and then started playing in a rock band later.

You wouldn’t want to be in a rock band – trust me.

I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.

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.

Yes, but I view Frank‘s music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.

I’m in a rock band – I don’t have a day job! I am spoiled… a lot.

If you’re in a rock band, you’re never too tame.

I’ve been a Nick Cave fan since the early ’80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I’ve always followed his work and loved it.

Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

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.

It is seldom right to say that anything is true ‘according to Google.’ Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for ‘hamadryad,’ and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it’s a rock band, too, wouldn’t you know).

In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had my own rock band, I played bass and sang. I was one of those kids who really enjoyed being with my friends and doing rather insane, but fun, creative things.

For my rock band, I was influenced by things like ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show.’ For me, it’s live rock n’ roll theater.

We’ve always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We’ve always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

Some of the guys in Stone Sour, I think they just want to be a radio band and write strictly for radio and try to be more of a poppy rock band. And that’s not really what I’m into.

I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.

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

Fall Out Boy used to be my favorite rock band.

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.

It’s a big deal when you play in a rock band and you conquer Japan. You know, it’s a big deal.

I wanted my own rock band and stuff like that, but things didn’t work out. I didn’t have the patience to write my own songs and learn it and everything.

A band like Avenged Sevenfold I’ve praised quite a bit publicly, because it’s a band that has moved into that arena-size thing for a hard rock band.

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.

Pink Floyd, the most successful progressive rock band of all time, have stood the test of time because the emphasis was always on melody and atmosphere.

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.

It’s just so obscure to take a folk song in a different language and be a pretty well-respected English-speaking rock band and totally take a song and twist it around and have fun with it.

I’ve always been in rock bands. I was in a rock band with my brother in high school. Then I was playing classical guitar recitals, and people said, ‘You know, you can’t really do both things.’ My intuition told me they were wrong. Somehow, what was interesting about me was that I had those two things in my life.

I can imagine myself as an old man writing music for choir or orchestra. I don’t know that I’ll be touring six months out of the year in a rock band when I’m 60.

Just about every rock band and every guitar player from 1964 to 1984. To me, that’s the golden period of rock. From the first Beatles album hitting America to the last Van Halen album with David Lee Roth. That’s where all my favorite rock exists.

The only advice I can give is to absorb as much as you can from as wide a spectrum as you can. If you’re in a rock band and only soak up Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple kind of beginnings, then you’re not going to have much leeway.

I think there is always room for a timeless sounding rock band like us.

I always wanted to be in a rock band, but I wanted to sing like a soul singer.

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

How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don’t think it will be simple.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band – we wanted to play rock and roll only.

I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it’s kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

I think that becoming a successful rock band is a little like becoming a professional athlete. Nobody plans on it.

I had a couple of years of rebellion – I was singing in a rock band.

The danger of a rock band is repeating oneself. It’s our greatest fear – that it evolves into the myopia of a semi-successful band that’s in love with its own shadow.

For us, if you’re a rock band, there’s no way around it. You have to tour. You have to tour a whole lot.

My parents are actually very famous singers in Bulgaria. My dad was in a rock band, and my mom was in a pop group. They met, fell in love, and actually formed a group together to escape the country because it was Communist, and they couldn’t leave. They didn’t know any English but eventually found their way to America.

You know, with bands like Kiss back out on the road and Aerosmith coming out, we are going to be a band like that, in the sense that it’s a big rock band.

The biggest misconception about us is that we’re just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.

When Dad stopped playing in a rock band and was done chasing that dream, he devoted himself to his family. I would love to do the same thing – just without driving a 1991 Suburban and wearing sweatpants, a fanny pack, and six-year-old Pumas.

We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be a rock band if we need to be.

We were expected to smile and be flirty to everyone. But we acted more like a male rock band. We never mastered the niceties. We were more interested in having a good time.

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

I was like 13, 14 years old. I had a Rock Band mic, and I used to record music and put it on YouTube and DatPiff. Then I started getting to producing my own music because I didn’t want to keep rapping on beats I was getting on SoundClick.

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

Not to get mushy, but I realized after talking to my parents what absolute guts they must have had to let their teenage daughter be in a rock band, play in bars, do all of that.

If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he’d probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.

‘Wii Music’ elevates the scope of music video games by moving beyond commentary on what music is – as ‘Rock Band’ and ‘Guitar Hero‘ do – to suggesting what it could be. Yet I’m still left wondering: Couldn’t it be more?

I grew up in a family where my father was in a rock band, and I saw and heard every story.

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

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

Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock band. I was dreaming of like corporate lunches and just like, and I’m not really joking. Like the whole idea to me was really appealing.

This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.

My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plastic guitars, a disco ball and a fog machine and some other things. I have a really long work day, and you might find me doing karaoke by myself late at night.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It’s about writing songs and it’s about making records but it’s also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

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.

I play ‘Rock Band’ with my friends’ kids, and they completely beat me senseless with it. I feel like I’m holding them back. I try to play the drums, and I just can’t play the drums. I think I need to work on my skills.

When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn’t a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality.

At the beginning, there was no chance I’d get published so I thought I’d give it a go live. I had to perform in rock band places and working men‘s clubs, where you wouldn’t expect to find poetry. I ploughed a lonely furrow.

We’re a rock band. We’re proud of it. We’re not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.

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.

Interscope is run more like a rock band than a record company. It’s run in a very spontaneous, heartfelt way.

There’s always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic ’60’s and ’70’s rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we’re sort of the anatomy of a ’70’s rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the ’50’s and ’60’s.

Too pop for punk, too ‘old school‘ for the New Wave, Mumps were a ’70s era New York rock band, out of time.

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

After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I’ve had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.

We all got older, and we’d tell our children things like, ‘Mommy used to be in a famous rock band,’ but they didn’t believe us. Part of the reason for our reunion was to show our children what we did to make the lives they have possible.

I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.